Footloose!
Footloose! | ||||
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Studio album by Paul Bley | ||||
Released | 1963 | |||
Recorded | August 17, 1962 and September 12, 1963 | |||
Studio | Medallion Studios, Newark, New Jersey | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 33:38 | |||
Label | Savoy MG-12182 | |||
Producer | Fred Mendelsohn | |||
Paul Bley chronology | ||||
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Footloose! is an album led by jazz pianist Paul Bley featuring tracks recorded in 1962 & 1963 and released on the Savoy label.[1] Tracks from this album, along with alternate takes and addition material from the sessions, were later released as Syndrome and Floater.[2][3]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [4] |
Allmusic described it as "one of Bley's most enjoyable albums".[4] Rough Guide author Ian Carr calls the album "classic and highly influential" stating that the "quiet, focused intensity persists throughout."[5] Fellow pianist Keith Jarrett said he listened to the album "thousands of times."[5]
Track listing
All compositions by Paul Bley, except as indicated
- "When Will The Blues Leave" (Ornette Coleman) - 6:08
- "Floater" (Carla Bley) - 6:23
- "Turns" - 3:14
- "Around Again" (Carla Bley) - 4:04
- "Syndrome" (Carla Bley) - 7:07
- "Cousins" - 4:39
- "King Korn" (Carla Bley) - 3:57
- "Vashkar" (Carla Bley) - 4:06
Alternate releases
Floater:
This 1984 album included tracks 1-4 and added the following tracks recorded at the same sessions:
- "Stereophrenic" (David Baker) - 5:06 (Note: some editions misspell title as "Stereophonic", and mistakenly credit Paul Bley as composer. This composition was previously recorded for George Russell's The Stratus Seekers).
- "Circle with the Hole in the Middle" (Coleman) - 5:08
- "Ballad No. 4" - 4:50
Syndrome:
This 1986 album included tracks 5-8 and added the following tracks recorded at the same sessions:
- "Around Again" [alternate take] (Carla Bley) - 3:53
- "Ballad I" - 4:29
- "King Korn" [alternate take] (Carla Bley) - 4:17
- "Ballad II" - 3:47
Personnel
- Paul Bley - piano
- Steve Swallow - bass
- Pete LaRoca - drums
References
- ^ Paul Bley catalog, accessed June 18, 2014
- ^ Syndrome: Discogs album entry, accessed June 18, 2014
- ^ Floater: Discogs album entry, accessed June 18, 2014
- ^ a b Chadbourne, E., Allmusic Review accessed June 18, 2014
- ^ a b Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby; Priestley, Brian (1995). The Rough Guide to Jazz - The Essential Companion to Artists and Albums. Rough Guides Ltd. pp. 63. ISBN 1-85828-137-7.
- v
- t
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- Introducing Paul Bley
- Paul Bley
- Solemn Meditation
- Footloose!
- Barrage
- Touching
- Closer
- Ramblin'
- Mr. Joy
- Paul Bley with Gary Peacock
- Ballads
- The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show
- Open, to Love
- Paul Bley/NHØP
- Jaco
- Alone, Again
- Quiet Song
- Tears
- Tango Palace
- Sonor
- Questions
- Diane
- My Standard
- Fragments
- The Paul Bley Quartet
- The Nearness of You
- Blues for Red
- Notes (with Paul Motian)
- Partners (with Gary Peacock)
- BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop
- Memoirs (with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian)
- 12 (+6) In a Row (with Hans Koch and Franz Koglmann)
- Right Time, Right Place (with Gary Burton)
- Changing Hands
- In the Evenings out There
- Paul Plays Carla
- Annette
- Hands On
- If We May
- Time Will Tell (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips)
- Chaos (with Furio Di Castri and Tony Oxley)
- Sankt Gerold (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips)
- Notes on Ornette
- Not Two, Not One (with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian)
- Basics
- Nothing to Declare
- About Time
- Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958
- Coleman Classics Volume 1
- Improvisie
- Dual Unity (with Annette Peacock)
- Japan Suite
- Axis
- Hot
- Live at Sweet Basil
- Solo in Mondsee
- Play Blue: Oslo Concert