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Paul Bley
Solo in
Mondsee

Paul
Bley piano

Mondsee
Variations

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Recorded
April 2001
ECM 1786

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Paul Bley, master
improviser, alone at a Bösendorfer Imperial piano in Mondsee,
Austria. Kaleidoscopically-splintered melodies, distant
memories of standards, abstractions of the blues and
spontaneous free playing are some of the subjects of the
Canadian pianist’s “Mondsee Variations”. This is a resolutely
creative and characteristically profound performance from one
of the most influential pianists in the entire history of
jazz, and Bley’s first solo recording on ECM since the crucial
“Open, To Love” album of 1972.