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Sonor (album)

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Released
  
1984

Length
  
39:35

Artist
  
Paul Bley

Producer
  
Giovanni Bonandrini

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
May 22, 1983

Sonor (1983)
  
Questions (1985)

Release date
  
1984

Label
  
Soul Note

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Similar
  
Paul Bley albums, Jazz albums

Sonor is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1983 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 2½ stars stating "For Paul Bley to comment that this 1983 recording is the best collection of his music to emerge since 1961 is a provocative statement unless, knowing Bley, he's just kidding around. Since this is even more spaced-out than some of his famous "slow" recordings such as Ballads, does that mean he really wanted those recordings to be even more minimal than they were?... The demanding listener may not forgive Bley for having tapped a vein of boredom, but perhaps this enigmatic jazz figure was trying to prove that there is no such thing".

Track listing

All compositions by Paul Bley
  1. "Little Bells" - 4:59
  2. "Landscape" - 3:45
  3. "Speed" - 3:10
  4. "Recollection" - 2:48
  5. "Joined" - 4:46
  6. "Sonor" - 6:24
  7. "Waltz" - 3:34
  8. "Set" - 3:49
  9. "Darkness" - 5:00
  10. "Tight Rope" - 1:20
  • Recorded at Barigozzi Studio in Milano, Italy on May 22, 1983.
  • Personnel

  • Paul Bley — piano
  • George Cross McDonald — percussion
  • Songs

    1Little Bells4:59
    2Landscape3:52
    3Speed3:11

    References

    Sonor (album) Wikipedia