Tag: Paul Motian
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Improvised By Paul Motian & Friends
Featuring all improvised tunes with Charlie Haden, Paul Bley, Masabumi Kikuchi, Thomas morgan, Enrico Pieranunzi, Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Stephan Oliver, Bruno Chevron and Paul Motian. With readings from the liner notes of Masabumi Kikuchi Trio 2012 album Sunrise on ECM.Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/07/improvised-by-paul-motian-friends-021017.htmlPhoto: Paul Motian © Pierluigi Bumba 1994
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1980s: Motian Quintet Version 2 Pt 1/3
Featuring unreleased rehearsal and concert tapes of the 1980’s Paul Motian Quintet Version 2. With Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Eddie Schuller and Jim Pepper. Podcast & Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/07/1980s-paul-motian-quintet-v2-part-13.html Photo: Jim Pepper in NYC?Bremen? 1983 photo: Paul Motian
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Escalator Over the Hill
Carla Bley’s epic 1971 album Escalator Over the Hill is featured. Paul Motian played drums on many of the cuts. With readings from the Paul Motian Archive. Podcast & Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2021/05/escalator-over-hill-carla-bley.html Photo: Carla Bley 1971 ©Paul Roughen courtesy JCOA Records
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Something Old, Something New
This week’s show features many early Paul Motian recordings and influences (Warne Marsh, Bill Evans, Tony Scott, Moondog, Lee Konitz) interspersed with Joe Lovano’s 2019 release Trio Tapestry (with Marilyn Crispell & Carmen Castaldi). With readings from the archive. Podcast & Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/04/something-old-something-new-012119.html Photo: Bill Evans, Jimmy Garrison?, Paul Motian location and date unknown photographer unknown…
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Live At the Village Vanguard
It was great to listen to the 90th Anniversary stream from the Village Vanguard with Once Around the Room for Paul Motian playing last night. So today’s featured podcast is Live From the Village Vanguard. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2022/04/live-at-village-vanguard.html Photo: Paul Motian at the Village Vanguard 1963 photographer unknown c. Paul Motian Archive
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More Music From the 1950s
Featuring music Paul Motian recorded in the 1950s with Jerry Wald (1955, where he met Bill Evans), Bill Evans, Don Elliot, Eddie Costa, George Russell, Lennie Tristano, Warne Marsh, & Lee Konitz. With readings from Motian’s unpublished autobiography about these times. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/02/more-music-from-1950s-011419.htmlPhoto: Paul Motian rehearsing with the Jerry Wald Orchestra 1955…
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Paul Motian, the Piano & Some Pianists
An unreleased cassette tape of Paul Motian practicing and composing on his piano interspersed with recordings with a variety of pianists he played with: Keith Jarrett, Marc Copland, Frank Kimbrough, Marilyn Crispell, Masabumi Kikuchi, Lowell Davidson, Anat Fort, & Bill Evans. Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/02/paul-motian-piano-and-some-pianists.html Photo: Paul Motian & Keith Jarrett 1973 05courtesy ECM Records photographer ©Roberto Masotti
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Kikuchi: At Home and Elsewhere
All live performances by pianist and Paul Motian bandmate Masabumi ‘Poo’ Kikuchi. The unreleased recordings from the 2000s are Courtesy of Paul Motian and Andreas Schmidt collections. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/02/kikuchi-at-home-and-elsewhere-021819.html Photo: Masabumi Kikuchi ©Abby Kikuchi from Black Orpheus CD Booklet Courtesy ECM Records
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1960s Classics and Innovators Part 2
More Paul Motian recordings from the 1960s featuring Pharaoh Sanders, Paul Bley, Joe Castro, David Izenzon and more. Readings from the archive. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/01/1960s-classics-and-innovators-part-2.html Photo: Sam Motian (Paul’s wife), Paul Motian, Joe Castro in Hawaii 1965 courtesy James Castro Collection
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1960s Classics and Innovators
A selection of Paul Motian recordings from the 1960s with Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Bill Evans, Mose Allison and more. With readings from Motian’s unpublished autobiography. Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/01/1960s-classics-and-innovators-030419.html Photo: Paul Motian recording with Paul Bley 1964 photo ©Len Dobbin
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Martial Solal
RIP Martial Solal. Paul Motian played with French pianist Martial Solal for 10 weeks at the Hickory House in NYC in 1963. The show features recordings from 1963 with bassist Teddy Kotick and 1997 and 1998 recordings with Motian, Solal and bassists Gary Peacock and Marc Johnson. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2023/06/martial-solal-082115.html Photo: Paul Motian, Teddy…
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Tribute: Around 1974
Featuring Paul Motian’s album Tribute, Keith Jarrett, Carla Bley and more. All jazz projects that happened in the mid-1970s. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2024/12/tribute-around-1974-061719.html Photo: Keith Jarrett Quartet Tour Flier Keystone Korner San Francisco 1974
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Paul Motian in the 1970s Pt 2/3
Keith Jarrett Quartet, backroom chatter, unreleased rehearsals, Tribute, Dance, Le VoyageSet List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2019/10/set-list-101419.htmlPhoto: Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Keith Jarrett, Dewey Redman 1975 photos: Paul Motian ©Paul Motian Archive
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Related to 1962
Sideman recordings of Paul Motian around 1962. Includes Perry Robinson, George Russell, Bill Evans, Eddie Costa, Zoot Sims, Tony Scott, Mose Allison. With readings from Motian’s unpublished autobiography. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2024/11/related-to-1962-021119.html Paul Motian July 1962 Likely Cape Cod, MA where he was playing a gig with Zoot Sims photographer unknown ©Paul Motian Archive
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Frisell, Motian, Lovano Trio & Nothing Else Pt 3/3
Lots of unreleased rehearsals and concerts in this last episode of Frisell, Motian, Lovano Trio & Nothing Else. With readings from the archive. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2024/11/frisell-motian-lovano-trio-and-nothing.html Photo: Photo: Motian composition Elenore Antique which became the tune Good Idea ©Yazgol Music/Paul Motian Archive
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Frisell, Motian, Lovano & Nothing Else Part 2/3
More released and unreleased music from the Paul Motian Trio with Bill Frisell & Joe Lovano. With readings about band size, instrument and song possibilities from Paul Motian’s 1986 Band Book. Set List:https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2024/10/frisell-motian-lovano-trio-nothing-else.html Photo: Paul Motian, Bill Frisell & Joe Lovano 1980s photo © Cheung Ching Ming
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Frisell, Motian, Lovano & Nothing Else Part1/3
This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of an episode first aired on December 3, 2018. The show features released and unreleased music, and readings from paul Motian’s unpublished autobiography. Podcast & Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2024/10/frisell-motian-lovano-trio-and-nothing.html Photo: 1987 Paul Motian Trio onstage Instanbul, Turkey photographer unknown ©Paul Motian
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1980s: Paul Motian Quintet Version 2 Part 2
This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of an episode first aired on October 8, 2018. In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, this show features Kaw-Creek Native American Jim Pepper. With Paul Motian, Joe Lovano, Jim Pepper, Bill Frisell, Ed Sculler. Featuring tunes with Jim Pepper as leader and unreleased Quintet rehearsal recordings and a gig…
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Motian Live & Unreleased
This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of an episode first aired on May 7, 2018. A selection of Motian live recordings spanning the years 1969-2011. All are unreleased. No readings but 1969 datebook pages & a receipt from the 1969 European tour with Keith Jarrett are shown along with a video link to the Jarrett…
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Charlie & Paul Part 3/4
This week’s podcast is a rebroadcast of an episode first aired on August 14, 2017. Haden & Motian. Music from past resistances is appropriate for the current resistance. With readings from Motian’s autobiography about Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet on tour in Japan in 1974. Podcast & Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2024/09/charlie-paul-part-34-081417.html Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet on tour in…