Paul Bley - Solo In Mondsee

Paul Bley, master improviser, alone at a B�sendorfer Imperial piano in Mondsee, Austria. Kaleidoscopically-splintered melodies, distant memories of standards, abstractions of the blues and spontaneous free playing are some of the subjects of the Canadian pianist�s �Mondsee Variations�. This is a resolutely creative and characteristically profound performance from one of the most influential pianists in the entire history of jazz, and Bley�s first solo recording on ECM since the crucial �Open, To Love� album of 1972.