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Francois Carrier, Paul Bley, Michel Lambert, Gary Peacock
Travelling Lights / Justin Time
Paul Bley
Nothing to Declare / Justin Time
Fans of Montreal-born Paul Bley, 71, will welcome this fifth solo recording
for Justin Time - an hour with a master of a highly personal piano style
in four longer lyrical conversations. You hear him reaching for that magical
moment, repeating an achieved phrase, luxuriating in a recalled fragment,
or dashing off a flurry of notes or cascade of chords - all abstractly lyrical.
In the second CD, Bley, and longtime musical collaborator, Gary Peacock,
join saxophonist Francois Carrier, with his favoured drummer, Michel Lambert,
in eight improvised pieces that are Zen-like in character, with an economy
of notes and use of space that gives their collective sound a pronounced
loftiness. Despite some hesitation at first, this is a successful collaboration,
especially in the 14-minute Europe, where Bley finds that certain passion.
Carrier picks up an exotic sounding soprano sax in the piece called Sea,
and Bley ends on a quixotic note, without Carrier, on Island.
Irwin Block
Thuesday, May 6, 2004
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