Paul Bley: The Logic of Chance Arrigo Cappelletti , Translated from the Italian by Gregory Burk
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Portrait of a jazz giant.
Arrigo Cappelletti retraces the life one of the most complex and mysterious personalities in the history of jazz. Paul Bley, born in Montreal in 1932, is one of the most important exponents of jazz of the last 50 years. He occupies, among the pantheon of jazz giants, an eccentric and aristocratic position, a reflection of a restless spirit, free and anarchic. An advocate of improvisation, he has always favored free jazz.
Bley honed his talent in the bands of Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young and Sonny Rollins. He played with jazz icons such as Keith Jarrett, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman and Carla Bley.
Praise for Stopping Time :
“What ties this sprawling story together is Bley’s storytelling—anecdotal, humorous, opinionated and given to plain-spoken philosophical sidetrips into the nature of jazz... The photos, especially the Montreal-era ones, are a vivid complement to the text.” —the National Post
Arrigo Cappelletti, author of Il Profumo del Jazz, is an Italian pianist, composer and professor of Jazz at the Conservatory of Venice. He writes for numerous publications such as Musica Jazz and Allaboutjazz.
Gregory Burk is an American pianist and composer. He teaches at the New York University in Florence and the Conservatory in Frosinone Italy.
ISBN: 978-1-55065-252-9