Open, to Love is a solo album by Canadian jazz pianist and composer

Paul Bley Paul Bley, Order of Canada, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a Canadian 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 per ...

recorded on September 11, 1972 and released on ECM later that year.

Background

The album is one of the first showcases of the pointillism and silence that would inform much of his later work. ''Open, to Love'' was selected as part of the ECM Touchstones series, as one of the most influential recordings on the label.Open To Love at ECM Records
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Reception

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review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 5 stars stating "Despite the fact that pianist and composer Paul Bley had been a renowned and innovative jazzman for nearly 20 years, 1973 saw the release of his most mature and visionary work, and one that to this day remains his opus. This is one of the most influential solo piano recordings in jazz history, and certainly one that defined the sound of the German label ECM... Ultimately, what Bley offers is jazz pianism as a new kind of aural poetics, one that treats the extension of the composer's line much as the poet treats the line as the extension of breath. Sheer brilliance."Jurek, T
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'' said "There is, perhaps, inevitably a hint of ''deja-vu'' here and there, but the territory is always much too interesting for that to become a problem."

Track listing

Personnel

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References

External links

OPEN TO LOVE at ECM Records
{{Authority control 1972 albums Solo piano jazz albums ECM Records albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher Paul Bley albums