Paul Bley discography

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This is the discography for Canadian jazz musician Paul Bley.

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As leader/co-leader

Recording dateTitleLabelYear releasedPersonnel/Notes
1953-11 Introducing Paul Bley Debut 1954 Charles Mingus, Art Blakey
1954-02,
1954-08
Paul Bley Wing 1955 Percy Heath/Peter Ind, Al Levitt
1957-08 Solemn Meditation GNP 1958 Dave Pike, Charlie Haden, Lennie McBrowne
1958-10 Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958 Inner City 1976 Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins. live
1958-10 Coleman Classics Volume 1 Improvising Artists 1977Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins. live
1962-08,
1963-09
Footloose! Savoy 1963 Steve Swallow, Pete LaRoca
Complete version as The Floater Syndrome combining Floater.
1962-08,
1963-09
FloaterSavoy1984Steve Swallow, Pete LaRoca
Unreleased tracks of Footloose! sessions.
1962-08,
1963-09
The Floater SyndromeSavoy1986Steve Swallow, Pete LaRoca
Complete version of Footloose! .
1964-03Turns Savoy 1987 John Gilmore, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian
Previously on New Music: 2nd Wave and Turning Point.
1964-10 Barrage ESP-Disk 1965 Dewey Johnson, Marshall Allen, Eddie Gómez, Milford Graves
1965-11 Touching Fontana 1965 Kent Carter, Barry Altschul
1965-12 Closer ESP-Disk 1966 Steve Swallow, Barry Altschul
1966-07 Ramblin' BYG Actuel 1967 Mark Levinson, Barry Altschul
1966-09,
1966-10
Blood Fontana 1966Mark Levinson, Barry Altschul
1965-11,
1966-11
Copenhagen and Haarlem Arista/Freedom 1975[2LP] Kent Carter, Mark Levenson, Barry Altschul
Live
1966-11 In Haarlem – Blood Polydor 1967Mark Levinson, Barry Altschul
Live
1967-06 Virtuosi Improvising Artists 1976Gary Peacock, Barry Altschul
1967-03,
1967-07
Ballads ECM 1971Mark Levinson/Gary Peacock, Barry Altschul
1964-03,
1968-05
Turning Point Improvising Artists 1975 John Gilmore, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian/Bill Elgart
1963-04,
1968-05
Paul Bley with Gary Peacock ECM1970Gary Peacock, Paul Motian/Billy Elgart
1968-05 Mr. Joy Limelight 1968Gary Peacock, Billy Elgart
1969-04,
1969-06,
1969-11
Revenge: The Bigger the Love the Greater the Hate Polydor 1971 Annette Peacock and various others
Live
1970-12,
1971-01,
1971-03
The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show Milestone 1971Dick Youngstein/Glen Moore/Frank Tusa, Steve Hass/Bobby Moses
1971-03 Improvisie America 1971Annette Peacock, Han Bennink
Live
1971-03,
1971-11
Dual Unity Freedom 1972Annette Peacock, Mario Pavone, Lawrence Cook/Han Bennink. Live
1972-09 Open, to Love ECM 1972Solo piano
1972-11 Paul Bley & Scorpio Milestone1973Dave Holland, Barry Altschul
1973-06,
1973-07
Paul Bley/NHØP SteepleChase 1973 Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
1974-06 Jaco Improvising Artists 1976 Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Bruce Ditmas. Live
1974-08 Alone, Again Improvising Artists1975Solo piano
1974-11 Quiet Song Improvising Artists1975 Jimmy Giuffre, Bill Connors
1976-07 Japan Suite Improvising Artists1977 Gary Peacock, Barry Altschul. Live
1977-06 Pyramid Improvising Artists1977 Lee Konitz, Bill Connors
1977-07 Axis Improvising Artists1978Solo piano. Live
1983-05 Tears Owl1984Solo piano
1983-05 Tango Palace Soul Note 1985Solo piano
1983-05 Sonor Soul Note1984George Cross McDonald
1985-02 Questions SteepleChase 1985 Jesper Lundgaard, Aage Tanggaard
1985-02 Diane SteepleChase1985 Chet Baker
1985-03 Hot Soul Note1985 John Scofield, Steve Swallow, Barry Altschul. Live
1985-12 My Standard SteepleChase1986 Jesper Lundgaard, Billy Hart
1986-01 Fragments ECM 1986 John Surman, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian
1986-03 Paul Bley & Jesper Lundgaard Live SteepleChase1986Jesper Lundgaard. Live
1986-03 Paul Bley & Jesper Lundgaard Live Again SteepleChase1987Jesper Lundgaard. Live
1987-05 Indian Summer SteepleChase1991 Ron McClure, Barry Altschul
1987-07 Notes Soul Note 1987 Paul Motian
1987-11 The Paul Bley Quartet ECM 1988John Surman, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian
1987-12 Solo Justin Time 1989Solo piano
1988-03 Live at Sweet Basil Soul Note1988 John Abercrombie, Red Mitchell, Barry Altschul. live
1988-04 Solo Piano Soul Note1988Solo piano
1988-11 The Nearness of You SteepleChase1989Ron McClure, Billy Hart
1989-05 Blues for Red Red 1989Solo piano
1989-05 Rejoicing SteepleChase1990 Michał Urbaniak, Ron McClure, Barry Altschul
1989-12 The Life of a Trio: Saturday Owl1990 Jimmy Giuffre, Steve Swallow
1989-12 The Life of a Trio: Sunday Owl1990Jimmy Giuffre, Steve Swallow
1989-12 Partners Owl1991Gary Peacock
1989-12 BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop SteepleChase1990 Bob Cranshaw, Keith Copeland
1990-03 Right Time, Right Place GNP Crescendo 1990Gary Burton
1990-05 12 (+6) In a Row Hat Hut 1995Hans Koch, Franz Koglmann
1990-07 Memoirs Soul Note 1990 Charlie Haden, Paul Motian
1991-02 Changing Hands Justin Time1991Solo piano
1991-03 Lyrics Splasc(H)1991Tiziana Ghiglioni
1991? A Musing Justin Time 1991Jon Ballantyne
1991-09 In the Evenings Out There ECM 1993John Surman, Gary Peacock, Tony Oxley
1991-12 Paul Plays Carla SteepleChase1992 Marc Johnson, Jeff Williams
1992-04 Mindset Soul Note 1997Gary Peacock
1992-04 Annette Hat Hut1993Franz Koglmann, Gary Peacock
1992-04 Caravan Suite SteepleChase1993Solo piano
1992-04 Homage to Carla Owl1993Solo piano
1992-11 Paul Bley at Copenhagen Jazz House SteepleChase1994Solo piano. Live
1993-03 Zen Palace Transheart1993Steve Swallow, Paul Motian
1993-03 Hands On Transheart1993Solo piano
1993-04 If We May SteepleChase1994Jay Anderson, Adam Nussbaum
1993-08Sweet Time Justin Time 1994Solo piano
1993-08 Double Time Justin Time1994 Jane Bunnett
1993-08 Know Time Justin Time1995Herbie Spanier, Geordie McDonald
1993-08 Synth Thesis Postcards 1994Solo piano and synthesizer
1994-01 Time Will Tell ECM 1995 Evan Parker, Barre Phillips
1994-03 Chaos Soul Note 1998Furio Di Castri, Tony Oxley
1994-07 Outside In Justin Time 1995 Sonny Greenwich
1994-09 Modern Chant Venus 1994 David Eyges, Bruce Ditmas
1994-09 Emerald Blue Venus1994David Eyges, Bruce Ditmas
1994-10 Speachless SteepleChase1995 Rich Perry, Jay Anderson, Victor Lewis
1994-10 Reality Check SteepleChase1996Jay Anderson, Victor Lewis
1996-04 Sankt Gerold ECM 2000Evan Parker, Barre Phillips. live
1997-04 Out of Nowhere SteepleChase1998Lee Konitz, Jay Anderson, Billy Drummond
1997-09 Notes on Ornette SteepleChase1998Jay Anderson, Jeff Hirshfield
1998-01 Not Two, Not One ECM1999Gary Peacock, Paul Motian
1999-03 When will the blues leave? ECM2019Bley, Peacock and Motian
1999-06 Echo SME 1999Masahiko Togashi
2000-07 Basics Justin Time 2001Solo piano
2001-06 Solo in Mondsee ECM2007Solo piano. Live
2003-05 Nothing to Declare Justin Time2004Solo piano
2007-05 About Time Justin Time2008Solo piano
2008-08 Play Blue: Oslo Concert ECM2014Solo piano. Live

As sideman

With Don Ellis

With Jimmy Giuffre and Steve Swallow

With Sonny Rollins

With others

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References

  1. Album entry on JakobBro.com
  2. "Paul Bley – Album Discography – AllMusic". AllMusic.
  3. "Paul Bley Albums Releases @ARTISTdirect". www.artistdirect.com. Archived from the original on 2017-12-30.