"I anticipated all the changes in jazz because……" — Paul Bley
"I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York in the late '50s, there were a lot of experiments being made on how to avoid playing popular standards and how to get improvising out of those constricting formats."
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7 Quotes by Paul Bley
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