PAUL BLEY,TOUCHING -(1965 fontana)

hi all

heres one of my very favourites,if youve never heard bley ,this is a great place to start.

this is boromirs rip of the original vinyl, i have the freedom double album reissue which also includes live 'blood' in amsterdam from the following year.

but this single disc version ,(now pretty rare) is absolutely essential.

at the time this was recorded ,the conventional pno.,db and drum

format ,had largely fallen out of favour with the avant guard.

weve searched hard to assertain its availability,without luck the reissue on black lion from 10 years or so ago is pretty much out of print.

i like this better than closer and barrage from the same period.

i cant find a review of this (even in the all music guide) no doubt about it though this is one of his BEST, from the period.

visit paul bley 's home page here http://www.improvart.com/bley/

boromir' said 'Here's the link for Touching:- http://rapidshare.com/files/29219501/PBley.rar.html

Vinyl ripped at

192 kbps.

Cover scans attached.

Cheers

we'll have more blet thats out of print to post, down the road, including live 'blood ,if it's not available , as well as the rare'mr joy' from 1968.

BUY PAUL BLEY'S RECORDS, THERE ARE CLOSE TO ONE HUNDRED TO CHOOSE FROM.

at the improvart webpage youcan get, both his and other artists records

including great ones by,j.guiffre, lester bowie, lee konitz , sam rivers ,sun ra and so on.

paul bley also appears on 2 rare previous posts

here http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2007/04/paul-bley-septet-live-in-hamburg-291065.html

and here

http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2007/03/jazz-composers-orchestra-communications.htmlhttp://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2007/03/jazz-composers-orchestra-communications.html

both being incidently from the same period as 'touching'

cheers