| Sonor | ||||
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| Released | 1984 | |||
| Recorded | May 22, 1983 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 39:35 | |||
| Label | Soul Note | |||
| Producer | Giovanni Bonandrini | |||
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Sonor is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1983 and released on the Italian Soul Note label. [1]
The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 2½ stars, stating: "For Paul Bley to comment that this 1983 recording is the best collection of his music to emerge since 1961 is a provocative statement unless, knowing Bley, he's just kidding around. Since this is even more spaced-out than some of his famous "slow" recordings such as Ballads , does that mean he really wanted those recordings to be even more minimal than they were?... The demanding listener may not forgive Bley for having tapped a vein of boredom, but perhaps this enigmatic jazz figure was trying to prove that there is no such thing." [2]
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