My Standard
1986 studio album by Paul Bley Trio
My Standard | ||||
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Studio album by Paul Bley Trio | ||||
Released | 1986 | |||
Recorded | December 8, 1985 | |||
Studio | Sound Track Studios, Copenhagen | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 64:16 | |||
Label | SteepleChase | |||
Producer | Nils Winther | |||
Paul Bley chronology | ||||
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My Standard is an album of jazz standards by pianist Paul Bley recorded in Denmark in 1985 and released on the SteepleChase label.[1]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
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AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars, stating that Bley "avoids the obvious and comes up with something new to say".[2]
Track listing
- "I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Madeira) – 2:59 Bonus track on CD
- "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 3:06
- "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 5:30
- "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:02
- "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern) – 4:29
- "Black and Blue" (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 4:47
- "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:30 Bonus track on CD
- "A.R.B." (Paul Bley) – 6:18 Bonus track on CD
- "Blues Waltz" (Bley) – 3:06 Bonus track on CD
- "I Wish I Knew" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:43
- "If I'm Lucky" (Eddie DeLange, Josef Myrow) – 3:09
- "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) – 4:57
- "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 4:03
- "The Theme" (Traditional) - 4:45
- "Becky" (Bley) – 5:11 Bonus track on CD
- "Bolivar Blues" (Thelonious Monk) – 2:18 Bonus track on CD
- "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) – 2:13 Bonus track on CD
Personnel
- Paul Bley – piano
- Jesper Lundgaard – bass
- Billy Hart – drums
References
- ^ Paul Bley catalog, accessed June 25, 2014
- ^ a b Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed June 25, 2014.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
- v
- t
- e
- Introducing Paul Bley
- Paul Bley
- Solemn Meditation
- Footloose!
- Barrage
- Touching
- Closer
- Ramblin'
- Mr. Joy
- Paul Bley with Gary Peacock
- Ballads
- The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show
- Open, to Love
- Paul Bley/NHØP
- Jaco
- Alone, Again
- Quiet Song
- Tears
- Tango Palace
- Sonor
- Questions
- Diane
- My Standard
- Fragments
- The Paul Bley Quartet
- The Nearness of You
- Blues for Red
- Notes (with Paul Motian)
- Partners (with Gary Peacock)
- BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop
- Memoirs (with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian)
- 12 (+6) In a Row (with Hans Koch and Franz Koglmann)
- Right Time, Right Place (with Gary Burton)
- Changing Hands
- In the Evenings out There
- Paul Plays Carla
- Annette
- Hands On
- If We May
- Time Will Tell (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips)
- Chaos (with Furio Di Castri and Tony Oxley)
- Sankt Gerold (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips)
- Notes on Ornette
- Not Two, Not One (with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian)
- Basics
- Nothing to Declare
- About Time
- Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958
- Coleman Classics Volume 1
- Improvisie
- Dual Unity (with Annette Peacock)
- Japan Suite
- Axis
- Hot
- Live at Sweet Basil
- Solo in Mondsee
- Play Blue: Oslo Concert