Year recorded
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Title
|
Label
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Personnel/Notes
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1953
|
Introducing Paul Bley
|
Debut
|
Charles Mingus, Art Blakey
|
1954
|
Paul Bley
|
Wing
|
Percy Heath/Peter Ind, Al Levitt
|
1958
|
Solemn Meditation
|
GNP
|
Dave Pike, Charlie Haden, Lennie McBrowne
|
1958 released 1976
|
Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958
|
Inner City
|
Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins
|
1958 released 1977
|
Coleman Classics Volume 1
|
Improvising Artists
|
Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins
|
1962
|
Floater
|
Savoy
|
Steve Swallow, Pete LaRoca
|
1962–1963
|
Footloose!
|
Savoy
|
Steve Swallow, Pete LaRoca Re-released with additional tracks as Floater and Syndrome
|
1963
|
Syndrome
|
Savoy
|
Steve Swallow, Pete LaRoca
|
1963–1968 released 1970
|
Paul Bley with Gary Peacock
|
ECM
|
Gary Peacock, Paul Motian/Billy Elgart
|
1964
|
Barrage
|
ESP-Disk
|
Dewey Johnson, Marshall Allen, Eddie Gómez, Milford Graves
|
1964
|
Turns
|
Savoy
|
John Gilmore, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian Re-released in 1975 as Turning Point with additional tracks from Mr. Joy
|
1964–1968 released 1975
|
Turning Point
|
Improvising Artists
|
John Gilmore, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian/Bill Elgart
|
1965
|
Touching
|
Debut
|
Kent Carter, Barry Altschul
|
1965
|
Closer
|
ESP-Disk
|
Steve Swallow, Barry Altschul
|
1966
|
Ramblin'
|
BYG Actuel
|
Mark Levinson, Barry Altschul
|
1966
|
Blood
|
Fontana
|
Mark Levinson, Barry Altschul
|
1966
|
In Haarlem – Blood
|
Polydor
|
Mark Levinson, Barry Altschul
|
1967 released 1971
|
Ballads
|
ECM
|
Mark Levinson/Gary Peacock, Barry Altschul
|
1967 released 1976
|
Virtuosi
|
Improvising Artists
|
Gary Peacock, Barry Altschul
|
1968
|
Mr. Joy
|
Limelight Records
|
Gary Peacock, Billy Elgart
|
1969
|
Revenge: The Bigger the Love the Greater the Hate
|
Polydor
|
Annette Peacock and various others
|
1970
|
The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show
|
Milestone
|
Dick Youngstein/Glen Moore/Frank Tusa, Steve Hass/Bobby Moses
|
1971
|
Improvisie
|
America
|
Annette Peacock, Han Bennink
|
1971
|
Dual Unity
|
Freedom
|
Annette Peacock, Mario Pavone, Lawrence Cook/Han Bennink
|
1972
|
Open, to Love
|
ECM
|
Solo piano
|
1972
|
Paul Bley & Scorpio
|
Milestone
|
Dave Holland, Barry Altschul
|
1973
|
Paul Bley/NHØP
|
SteepleChase
|
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
|
1974
|
Jaco
|
Improvising Artists
|
Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Bruce Ditmas
|
1974
|
Alone, Again
|
Improvising Artists
|
Solo piano
|
1974
|
Quiet Song
|
Improvising Artists
|
Jimmy Giuffre, Bill Connors
|
1976
|
Japan Suite
|
Improvising Artists
|
Gary Peacock, Barry Altschul
|
1977
|
Pyramid
|
Improvising Artists
|
Lee Konitz, Bill Connors
|
1977
|
Axis
|
Improvising Artists
|
Solo piano
|
1983
|
Tears
|
Owl Records
|
Solo piano
|
1983
|
Tango Palace
|
Soul Note
|
Solo piano
|
1983
|
Sonor
|
Soul Note
|
George Cross McDonald
|
1985
|
Questions
|
SteepleChase
|
Jesper Lundgaard, Aage Tanggaard
|
1985
|
Diane
|
SteepleChase
|
Chet Baker
|
1985
|
Hot
|
Soul Note
|
John Scofield, Steve Swallow, Barry Altschul
|
1985
|
My Standard
|
SteepleChase
|
Jesper Lundgaard, Billy Hart
|
1986
|
Fragments
|
ECM
|
John Surman, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian
|
1986
|
Paul Bley & Jesper Lundgaard Live
|
SteepleChase
|
Jesper Lundgaard
|
1986
|
Paul Bley & Jesper Lundgaard Live Again
|
SteepleChase
|
Jesper Lundgaard
|
1987
|
Indian Summer
|
SteepleChase
|
Ron McClure, Barry Altschul
|
1987
|
Notes
|
Soul Note
|
Paul Motian
|
1987
|
The Paul Bley Quartet
|
ECM
|
John Surman, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian
|
1987
|
Solo
|
Justin Time
|
Solo piano
|
1988
|
Live at Sweet Basil
|
Soul Note
|
John Abercrombie, Red Mitchell, Barry Altschul
|
1988
|
Solo Piano
|
Soul Note
|
Solo piano
|
1988
|
The Nearness of You
|
SteepleChase
|
Ron McClure, Billy Hart
|
1989
|
Blues for Red
|
Red
|
Solo piano
|
1989
|
Rejoicing
|
SteepleChase
|
Michał Urbaniak, Ron McClure, Barry Altschul
|
1989
|
The Life of a Trio: Saturday
|
Owl
|
Jimmy Giuffre, Steve Swallow
|
1989
|
The Life of a Trio: Sunday
|
Owl
|
Jimmy Giuffre, Steve Swallow
|
1989
|
Partners
|
Owl
|
Gary Peacock
|
1989
|
BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop
|
SteepleChase
|
Bob Cranshaw, Keith Copeland
|
1990
|
Memoirs
|
Soul Note
|
Charlie Haden, Paul Motian
|
1990 released 1995
|
12 (+6) In a Row
|
Hat Hut
|
Hans Koch, Franz Koglmann
|
1990
|
Right Time, Right Place
|
GNP Crescendo Records
|
Gary Burton
|
1991
|
A Musing
|
Justin Time
|
Jon Ballantyne
|
1991
|
Changing Hands
|
Justin Time
|
Solo piano
|
1991
|
Lyrics
|
Splasc(H)
|
Tiziana Ghiglioni
|
1991
|
In the Evenings Out There
|
ECM
|
John Surman, Gary Peacock, Tony Oxley
|
1991
|
Paul Plays Carla
|
SteepleChase
|
Marc Johnson, Jeff Williams
|
1992
|
Mindset
|
Soul Note
|
Gary Peacock
|
1992
|
Annette
|
Hat Hut
|
Franz Koglmann, Gary Peacock
|
1992
|
Caravan Suite
|
SteepleChase
|
Solo piano
|
1992
|
Homage to Carla
|
Owl
|
Solo piano
|
1992
|
Paul Bley at Copenhagen Jazz House
|
SteepleChase
|
Solo piano
|
1993
|
Zen Palace
|
Transheart
|
Steve Swallow, Paul Motian
|
1993
|
Hands On
|
Transheart
|
Solo piano
|
1993
|
If We May
|
SteepleChase
|
Jay Anderson, Adam Nussbaum
|
1993
|
Sweet Time
|
Justin Time
|
Solo piano
|
1993
|
Double Time
|
Justin Time
|
Jane Bunnett
|
1993
|
Know Time
|
Justin Time
|
Herbie Spanier, Geordie McDonald
|
1993
|
Synth Thesis
|
Postcards
|
Solo piano and synthesizer
|
1994
|
Time Will Tell
|
ECM
|
Evan Parker, Barre Phillips
|
1994 released 1998
|
Chaos
|
Soul Note
|
Furio Di Castri, Tony Oxley
|
1994
|
Modern Chant
|
Venus
|
David Eyges, Bruce Ditmas
|
1994
|
Outside In
|
Justin Time
|
Sonny Greenwich
|
1994
|
Emerald Blue
|
Venus
|
David Eyges, Bruce Ditmas
|
1994
|
Speachless
|
SteepleChase
|
Rich Perry, Jay Anderson, Victor Lewis
|
1994
|
Reality Check
|
SteepleChase
|
Jay Anderson, Victor Lewis
|
1996 released 2000
|
Sankt Gerold
|
ECM
|
Evan Parker, Barre Phillips
|
1997
|
Out of Nowhere
|
SteepleChase
|
Lee Konitz, Jay Anderson, Billy Drummond
|
1997
|
Notes on Ornette
|
SteepleChase
|
Jay Anderson, Jeff Hirshfield
|
1998
|
Not Two, Not One
|
ECM
|
Gary Peacock, Paul Motian
|
1999
|
Echo
|
SME Records
|
Masahiko Togashi
|
2000
|
Basics
|
Justin Time
|
Solo piano
|
2001 released 2007
|
Solo in Mondsee
|
ECM
|
Solo piano
|
2003
|
Nothing to Declare
|
Justin Time
|
Solo piano
|
2007
|
About Time
|
Justin Time
|
Solo piano
|
2008 released 2014
|
Play Blue: Oslo Concert
|
ECM
|
Solo piano
|
2019
|
When will the blues leave?
|
ECM
|
Bley, Peacock and Motian (recorded in 1999)
|