i just listened to paul bley for the first time in my life. homage to carla from 1992. and i am flabbergasted. if this had been a blindtest i'd have said it is an unreleased recording by keith jarrett. from the 70s when jarrett was solo. the same lyricism, the same kind of restraint, the same flow but without the melodic transcendental climaxes. paul was on ecm as well in the early 70s.

i am going to explore the annette peacock (wonderful reissue my mama never taught me how to cook), gary peacock, paul bley, clara bley complex further on. next album i ordered: carla bley's jazz opera thing escalator from over the hill. funny that there are quite a lot of paul bley/gary peacock collaborations, the last one from 2001 even called annette. i mean both of them were married to her. not sure if she is still married to paul gary but i doubt it.

gary peacock has been keith jarrett's bassist for the last 20 years or so by the way.

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