''Footloose!'' is an album led by jazz pianist

Paul Bley Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and ...

featuring tracks recorded in 1962 & 1963 and released on the

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label. Tracks from this album, along with alternate takes and addition material from the sessions, were later released as ''Syndrome'' and ''Floater''.''Floater'': Discogs album entry
accessed June 18, 2014

Reception

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described it as "one of Bley's most enjoyable albums".Chadbourne, E.
Allmusic Review
accessed June 18, 2014

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author

Ian Carr Ian Carr (21 April 1933 – 25 February 2009) was a Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator. Carr performed and recorded with the Rendell-Carr quintet and jazz-fusion band Nucleus, and was an associate professor at the Guildhall ...

calls the album "classic and highly influential" stating that the "quiet, focused intensity persists throughout." Fellow pianist

Keith Jarrett Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a ...

said he listened to the album "thousands of times."

Track listing

''All compositions by Paul Bley, except as indicated'' # "When Will The Blues Leave" (

Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Jazz: A Colle ...

) - 6:08 # "Floater" (

Carla Bley Carla Bley (born Lovella May Borg; May 11, 1936) is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader. An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera '' Escalator over the Hill'' ...

) - 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 ''The Stratus Seekers'' is an album by George Russell released in May or June 1962 on Riverside Records. The album contains performances by Russell with John Pierce, David Baker, Paul Plummer, Don Ellis, Steve Swallow and Joe Hunt. Reception ...

).'' *"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" lternate take(Carla Bley) - 3:53 * "Ballad I" - 4:29 * "King Korn" lternate take(Carla Bley) - 4:17 * "Ballad II" - 3:47

Personnel

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

Steve Swallow Steve Swallow (born October 4, 1940) is an American jazz bassist and composer, known for his collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton, and Carla Bley. He was one of the first jazz double bassists to switch entirely to electric bass guitar. ...

- bass *

Pete LaRoca Pete "La Roca" Sims (born Peter Sims; April 7, 1938 – November 20, 2012, known as Pete La Roca from 1957 until 1968) was an American jazz drummer and attorney. Born and raised in Harlem by a pianist mother and a stepfather who played trumpet, ...

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

References

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