“When I arrived in New York I was definitely the worst player in town! It was just a measure of how far I had to go. It took years, while I was at Juilliard I worked different weekends with different people.” PeopleYearsDifferentPlayerWorstNew YorkTownsWeekendDifferent PeoplesJuilliard Author: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.” MadeMusicNew YorkLateStandardsJazzExperimentsJazz MusicFormatImprovising Author:Paul Bley
