Sonor (album) explained

Sonor
Type:Album
Artist:Paul Bley
Cover:Sonor (album).jpg
Released:1984
Recorded:May 22, 1983
Genre:Jazz
Length:39:35
Label:Soul Note
Producer:Giovanni Bonandrini
Chronology:Paul Bley
Prev Title:Tango Palace
Prev Year:1983
Next Title:Questions
Next Year:1985

Sonor is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1983 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 2½ stars, stating: "For Paul Bley to comment that this 1983 recording is the best collection of his music to emerge since 1961 is a provocative statement unless, knowing Bley, he's just kidding around. Since this is even more spaced-out than some of his famous "slow" recordings such as Ballads, does that mean he really wanted those recordings to be even more minimal than they were?... The demanding listener may not forgive Bley for having tapped a vein of boredom, but perhaps this enigmatic jazz figure was trying to prove that there is no such thing."[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Paul Bley

  1. "Little Bells" - 4:59
  2. "Landscape" - 3:45
  3. "Speed" - 3:10
  4. "Recollection" - 2:48
  5. "Joined" - 4:46
  6. "Sonor" - 6:24
  7. "Waltz" - 3:34
  8. "Set" - 3:49
  9. "Darkness" - 5:00
  10. "Tight Rope" - 1:20

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://jazzrealities.blogspot.com/2010/01/soulnote-label-discography-compiled-by.html Soul Note discography
  2. Chabourne, E. Allmusic Review accessed October 27, 2011.