Thursday, September 25 Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm $10/$5 We begin our 7th season with a performance by one of the most important living pianists: 75 year old Paul Bley. "In the final reckoning,” writes Ben Ratliff, in The New York Times, the pianist Paul Bley's influence over the last 50 years of jazz will be enormous.... Deeply original and aesthetically aggressive, Mr. Bley long ago found a way to express his long, elegant, voluminous thoughts in a manner that implies complete autonomy from its given setting but isn't quite free jazz. The music runs on a mixture of deep historical knowledge and its own inviolable principles."
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