"Improvisation is food for the listener 's brain."
The introverted and sound experimenter, Paul Bley, died at age 83 of natural causes in his sleep at his home in Florida, United States. In life he was one of the most influential jazz pianists of the twentieth century, even creating with other musicians association jazz composers (Jazz Composers Guild).
Bley was born on November 10, 1932 in Montreal, Canada, and from very small showed his musical gifts, beginning to study classical music and violin at 5 years. Seven years later he obtained a degree in piano at the Conservatory McGill and 13 had already formed his first band and co-founded the Montreal Jazz Workshop, where he managed to play with the legendary Charlie Parker.
In the 1960s he decided to experiment in the rhythms of jazz with electric pianos and synthesizers, achieving a unique sound that managed to revolutionize the genre through the "Free Jazz." He was always accompanied by jazz greats, recording with Charles Mingus, Lester Young, Chet Baker, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins and many more musicians, achieving edit more than one hundred albums.
Was an outstanding musician of jazz history, due to its innovation and experimentation, and especially for the legacy he left for his album "The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show", published in 1971.
In 1974 he founded his own label "Improving Artist", although this did not stop him recording new productions with different labels. A very important story is that he published two different disks in two different countries on the same day.
His last album was released in 2014, the product of a live concert held in the city of Oslo in 2008.
