21:00 Paul Bley & Evan Parker & Barre Phillips USA/GB
"For me, the only obsession is changing the music." (Paul Bley)
At age 20, Paul Bley was already playing with Charlie Parker and had cut a first record - which featured Mingus on bass and Art Blakey on drums (Introducing Paul Bley) - with the Charles Mingus' Debut Label. In 1958, he worked in Los Angeles with Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell, and later also with Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman, who was still relatively unknown at that time. From 1961-63, he played in Jimmy Giuffre's trio before hooking up with the Sonny Rollins Band (Sonny Meets Hawk). Bley, the "quiet genius of free jazz" (Melody Maker), was also Albert Ayler's accompanist. Furthermore he was a founding member of the Jazz Composers' Guild and counts as one of the driving forces behind the 1960s "New Things". His trio recordings Footloose, Closer and Mr Joy are considered classics, as is his solo rendering of Open To Love. For ECM, he recorded the wonderful LP, Fragments (with John Surman, Bill Frisell and Paul Motian) , among others.
This evening, Bley will be having a give-and-take with bassist Barre Phillips, who has lived on the Côte d'Azur since 1967, and with saxophonist Evan Parker, a central figure in European improvised music. CH
24:00 PianoNightLine Robert Schönherr Trio
You know it's midnight when the crowd at Porgy slowly begins to disperse, when the overhead lights dim and the stage takes on a bluish glow. This is the hour of the lonely wolf, when the remaining handful of special listeners sink into their chairs, shoving aside thoughts about tomorrow while at the same time wondering how it is that yet another good pianist is onstage again. Robert Schönherr, a prominent figure in the apparently never-ending stream of excellent pianists, will perhaps be the only one thinking about tomorrow. He's a medical doctor and will have to show up on time to receive his patients. MR
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