الوسم: Paul Motian
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It should’ve happened a long time ago.
A week and a bit after I went to hear Paul Motian and Bill Frisell play at the Village Vanguard with saxophonists Tony Malaby and Mark Turner (reported here), I returned for the last night of the next week's run (Sunday, Sept. 5), during which saxophonist Joe Lovano returned to his place at the center…
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Misterioso.
Paul Motian has been playing at the Village Vanguard for half a century now, his earliest engagements of note in a legendary trio with pianist Bill Evans and bassist Scott LaFaro. Quietly revolutionary, that group broke with the age-old model of the piano trio as a vehicle for a leader with support, proposing instead a…