Paul Bley - The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show '2017

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Mr. Joy (A.Peacock) - 4:35
02. The Archangel (A.Peacock) - 6:52
03. Nothing Ever Was, Anyway (A.Peacock) - 6:51
04. Gary (A.Peacock) - 4:37
05. Snakes (A.Peacock) - 6:54
06. Parks (A.Peacock) - 6:11
07. Circles (A.Peacock) - 4:14

personnel : 

Paul Bley - piano, ARP synthesizer, RMI electric piano
Glen Moore (#1,3,4), Dick Youngstein (#2,6,7), Frank Tusa (#3,5) - bass
Steve Hass (#1–4,6,7), Bobby Moses (#3,5) - drums

It doesn't seem right to use the term avant garde in relation to a tune as
downright pretty as Annette Peacock's "Mr. Joy," which kicks off this often
maligned early-'70s Paul Bley effort. Sometimes this term is assigned for life
just because it was used at the time of the recording. In a sense, the early
players of prototype synthesizers or other newly developed musical equipment are
perhaps the only real avant garde musicians. This philosophy would be one of
those concepts in which the actual sound of the music is deemed irrelevant. What
it actually sounds like when a listener tunes into the Paul Bley Synthesizer
Show is quite varied, but be sure to get ready for plenty of tone settings that
sound like a Muppets toy keyboard, and that's a compliment. Considering the
legendary horrors of getting this early electronic equipment to work on tour, it
is no surprise that these studio recordings are much more successful
approximations of what Bley and his partner, Peacock, were striving for. Another
big difference with the European tour involving this couple and these
instruments that came along just a bit later was that Han Bennink was enlisted
to play drums overseas and handled the situation completely differently. Bley's
monophonic keyboard, no matter how mightily it might squiggle, was no match for
Bennink. The drummers featured here play more in the manner of a typical drummer
in a Bley piano trio, meaning quietly and with much space, and there are even a
pair of acoustic piano trio numbers included to boot. This approach to
percussion means the synthesizer doesn't have to compete to be heard, leading to
some really marvelous moments of barely audible high pitches on "The Archangel."
Rhythm section playing is particularly good throughout the recording, even in
the case of musicians such as bassist Dick Youngstein and drummer Steve Haas.
The rhythm section of bassist Frank Tusa and drummer Bobby Moses also
contributes a lot of really beautiful playing, the drummer shifting rhythms
delicately and playing a terrific solo on "Snakes." All the drummers featured
have an uncanny knack of knowing when to lay out, and not only in deference to
the subtle dynamics of electronic music. The acoustic performance "Gary" is
wonderfully slow and spacy. Jazz critics made toast of this release when it
originally came out, and when the electronic sounds featured lost their original
novelty it did little to add value. Despite interesting moments of sound
experimentation, most of the time Bley uses the synthesizer simply to play sweet
sounding melodies, so his electronic work can hardly be considered some kind of
radical innovation. Several of the tunes such as "Parks" are more like stuff Les
McCann came up with, but without that artist's innovative keyboard overdubbing.
Removed several decades from the initial hoopla about electronic instruments,
this music can really be appreciated as a stunning document of Bley in action,
bringing past and present aspects of his creativity into something new,
developing right in front of the musicians that he gets such superb performances
out of.~Eugene Chadbourne
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