Paul Bley - Footloose (1993 Japanese Savoy Vinyl LP)

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Paul Bley - Footloose | Vinyl LP - 1993 Japanese Savoy Reissue (COJY-9050, Supreme Collection of Savoy Part II No. 9, Nippon Columbia Co. Ltd.)

Paul Bley was born in Montreal in 1932 and had worked with Charles Mingus, Jimmy Giuffre and Sonny Rollins before these sessions. The most important experience shaping his approach on Footloose was a lengthy engagement at the Hillcrest Club in Los Angeles in 1957–58 alongside Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins and Charlie Haden, where Bley found himself playing free of conventional harmonic structures for the first time. By 1962, when the first of these two Savoy sessions took place at Medallion Studios in Newark, Bley had a clear sense of where he was heading. He chose Steve Swallow on acoustic bass and Pete LaRoca on drums, a trio that met only in the recording studio but played together as though the relationship were much older.

The eight tracks across the LP draw from three composers. "When Will the Blues Leave" is an Ornette Coleman original, the only track here not composed by a member of the trio. Paul Bley wrote two pieces: "Turns" (A3) and "Cousins" (B2). The remaining five — "Floater," "Around Again," "Syndrome," "King Korn" and "Vashkar" — are by Carla Bley, then Paul's wife and at the time essentially uncredited in the jazz world as a composer. The sessions took place in two blocks: three tracks on 17 August 1962, five on 12 September 1963. This is a 1993 Japanese Savoy reissue in the Supreme Collection of Savoy Part II series, manufactured by Nippon Columbia Co. Ltd.