Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian - Live in Switzerland (1999)

Paul Bley, piano
Gary Peacock, bass
Paul Motian, drums

01 Hackensack
02 Set upset
03 Mambo Jambo
04 Ostinato - Please
05 Dialogue Amour
06 When Will The Blues Leave
07 I loves you, Porgy

18 March 1999, Lugano, Technische Hochschule, Aula Magna
Recording by my friend Juri from Ukraine

Artwork by Barabbovich.
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Paul Motian Quintet - Live in Poland (1995)

 

Lee Konitz – alto saxophone
Joe Lovano – tenor saxophone
Bill Frisell – guitar
Marc Johnson – bass
Paul Motian – drums

01 Like Someone in Love
02 Duologue
03 What Is This Thing Called Love
04 What's New
05 How Deep Is the Ocean
06 You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart
07 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
08 Bill Solo
09 Body and Soul

Recorded live in Gdynia, Poland, July 1995
Very special thanks to LiveJazzLounge

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Martial Solal / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian - umbria Jazz 1997

 

Martial Solal: piano
Gary Peacock: bass
Paul Motian: drums 

01 Coming Yesterday
02 Willow Weep for Me
03 Valse en do# mineur
04 Summertime
05 Sacrebleu
06 I'm Getting Sentimental over You
07 Just Friends

Registrato nell'ambito del festival Umbria Jazz 1997 al teatro Tirreno di Perugia l'11 luglio 1997.
Trasmesso da Rai Radio Tre il 9.12.1997 

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Paul Bley / Furio Di Castri / Paul Motian - Live in Italy (1987)

 

Paul Bley: piano
Furio Di Castri: bass
Paul Motian: drums

01 Turnaround
02 Flame
03 Improvisation
04 Ida Lupino
05 Batterie
06 Diane
07 When Will the Blues Leave?

Recorded live at Villa Imperiale, Genoa, Italy, 5 July 1987

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Paul Motian & the Electric Be-Bop band - Monk at Town Hall (2002)

Chris Cheed - sax tenore
Pietro Tonolo - sax tenore e soprano
Rossano Emili - clarinetto basso, sax baritono
Cail Gregory - tromba, filicorno
Roberto Rossi – trombone
Dario Duso – tuba
Steve Cardenas e Jakob Brow – chitarre
Anders Christensen - basso elettrico
Paul Motian – batteria
Riccardo Brazzale - arrangiamenti e direzione.

1. Thelonious
2. Friday the thirtheenth
3. Monk's mood
4. Off minor
5. Crepuscle with Nellie
6. Little Rootie Tootie
7. A bide with me
8. Epistrophy

Trasmesso il 24.5.2002 in diretta da RadioTre Rai dall’Auditorium Canneti di Vicenza nell’ambito del festival Vicenza Jazz 2002 – New Conversations.
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Geri Allen, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian - In the year of the dragon (1989)

Charlie Haden, bass
Paul Motian, drums
Geri Allen, piano

1. Oblivion
2. For John Malachi
3. Rollano
4. See you at Per Tutti's
5. Last call
6. No More Mr.Nice Guy
7. Invisible
8. First song
9. In The Year Of The Dragon

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Geri Allen, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian - Clusone Jazz Festival 1990

 

Geri Allen piano
Paul Motian drums
Charlie Haden bass

01 First song (for Ruth)
02 Shuffle Montgomery
03 Fiasco
04 Etude

Clusone, 28 Luglio 1990

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Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra - Rumori Mediterranei (1987)

 

Charlie Haden: bass
Geri Allen: piano
Mick Goodrick: guitar
Paul Motian: drums
Bob Stewart: tuba
Craig Harris: trombone
Joe Lovano, Earl McIntyre & Dewey Redman: saxophones
Sharon Freeman: french horn
Patrick Robertson & Stanton Davis: trumpet

01 Band Introduction
02 Rabo de Nube
03 Els segadors
04 The Ballad of the Fallen
05 If You Want To Write Me
06 Grandola Vila Morena
07 Introduction to People
08 The People United Will never Be Defeated
09 Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika
10 Silence

Registrato a Roccella Jonica (Cz), 27 agosto 1987. Trasmesso da Rai Radio Tre nel corso della trasmissione Un certo discorso il 23.12.1987

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Pal Motian, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell - Live in Germany (1998)

Joe Lovano - Tenor Sax
Bill Frisell - Guitar
Paul Motian - Drums

01 Yala
02 Don't Explain
03 Eronel
04 Turn Out The Stars
05 Duke Ellington's Sound of Love
06 Drum Music
07 Le Voyage
08 Body and Soul
09 Epistrophy
10 It Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago
11 Drum Music
12 Good Morning Heartache

february 23, 1998, Funkhaus, Hamburg, Germany

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Paul Motian Trio - Clusone Jazz Festival 1992

Paul Motian drums
Bill Frisell electric guitars
Joe Lovano saxophones

01 Bye-ya
02 Cathedral song
03 Monk's mood
04 Yahllah

Registrato a Clusone (Italia) il 26.7.1992
Trasmesso da Rai Radio Tre il 6.2.1993
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Paul Motian / Bill Frisell / Joe Lovano - The musicians of Bremen (1990)

Joe Lovano - Tenor Sax
Bill Frisell - Guitar
Paul Motian - Drums

1. Ruby My Dear (Thelonious Monk)
2. Good Morning Heartache (Irene Higginbotham, Ervin Drake & Dan Fisher)
3. Psalm (Paul Motian)
4. Kathelin Gray (Ornette Coleman & Pat Metheny)
5. Crepuscule With Nellie (Thelonious Monk)
6. Once Around The Park (Paul Motian)

Registrato il 18 marzo 1990, Orchesterboden des Packhaus, Brema
Trasmesso Martedì 7 ottobre 2014 - ore 22,05 (NRW)
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Paul Motian, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell - Live in New York (2008)

Paul Motian : Drums
Joe Lovano : Tenor saxophone
Bill Frisell : Electric guitar

01 The bag man
02 Light blue
03 Time and time again
04 Jack of clubs
05 Ruby my dear
06 Lets cool one
07 Cambodia
08 Drum music

Village Vanguard, NYC 3.9.2008
Great set from a truly great band during their yearly trip to the Vanguard. Beautifully recorded by NPR.
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The Bad Plus with Bill Frisell - Tribute to Paul Motian (2012)

Ethan Iverson, piano
Reid Anderson, bass
Dave King, drums
Bill Frisell, guitar

01 The Owl Of Cranston
02 Mumbo Jumbo
03 No Moe
04 It Should Have Happened A Long Time Ago
05 Abacus


All tracks written by Paul Motian, except No moe, by Sonny Rollins.


Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012

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Paul Motian Band - Live in Bremen (1983)

Bill Frisell,guitar
Ed Schuller,bass
Jim Pepper,tenor & soprano saxophone
Joe Lovano,tenor saxophone
Paul Motian,drums

01 Five Miles To Wrentham
02 White Magic
03 The Story Of Maryam
04 Yahllah
05 The Sunflower
06 Etude
07 Mandeville
08 Drum Music
09 Psalm
10 Maliniye

Radio Bremen, Schauburg, Germany, November 17, 1983
Special thanks to http://inconstantsol.blogspot.it/
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Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra - Live in Genova (1991)

Charlie Haden,bass
Earl Gardner,trumpet
Tom Harrell,trumpet,flugelhorn
Julian Priester,trombone
Sharon Freeman,French horn
Joe Dailey,tuba
Makanda Ken McIntyre,alto sax
John Stubblefield,tenor & soprano saxes,flute
Javon Jackson,tenor sax
Amina Claudine Myers,piano
Mike Goodrick,guitar
Paul Motian,drums

1. Intro by C.Haden (02:40)
2. Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika (ANC Anthem) [E.M.Sontonga] (20:00)
3. Dream Keeper Suite (34:30):
a) Dream Keeper Part 1 [C.Bley]
b) Feliciano Ama [Trad. from El Salvador]
c) Dream Keeper Part II [C.Bley]
d) Canto del Pilon [Trad. from Venezuela]
e) Dream Keeper Part III [C.Bley]
f) Hymn of the Anarchist Women's Movement [Trad. from Spanish Civil War]
g) Dream Keeper Part IV [C.Bley]
4. Spiritual [C.Haden] (15:25)
5. La Pasionaria [C.Haden] (19:10)
6. Sandino (encore) [C.Haden] (09:10)

Rec. live at "Villa Imperiale", Genoa, Italy, on July 16, 1991 (mix recording)
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Arild Andersen - Lifelines (1981)

Arild Andersen: Bass
Steve Dobrogosz: Piano
Kenny Wheeler: Fluegelhorn, Cornet
Paul Motian: Drums

1. Cameron
2. Prelude
3. Landloper
4. Predawn
5. Dear Kenny
6. A Song I Used To Play
7. Lifelines
8. Anew
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