''Improvisie'' is a live album by

Paul Bley Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and ...

with

Annette Peacock Annette Peacock is an American composer, musician, songwriter, producer, and arranger. She is a pioneer in electronic music who combined her voice with one of the first Moog synthesizers in the late 1960s. Biography Annette Peacock was writing ...

and

Han Bennink Han Bennink (born 17 April 1942) is a Dutch drummer and percussionist. On occasion his recordings have featured him playing soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, trombone, violin, banjo and piano. Though perhaps best known as one of the pivotal fig ...

which was released on the French

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label in 1971.Paul Bley catalog
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Reception

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awarded the album 4½ stars observing "There are two pieces on the set, the elegiac title cut, which is nearly 14 minutes in length, and the much more adventurous "Touching," which is nearly 24. On "Improvisie," elements of jazz phrasing and harmony usher in the piece haltingly, purposefully, almost reverently... Even 35 years later, "Touching" is still a brave and uncompromising work, one that asks as many questions as it answers, and one that renews its freshness with each repeated listening".Jurek, T.
Allmusic Review
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'' stated "It was Peacock who got Bley interested in synthesisers and even at this early stage their mutual explorations of electronic sounds is extremely impressive".

Track listing

# "Improvisie" (Annette Peacock, Han Bennink, Paul Bley) – 13:53 # "Touching" (Peacock) – 23:43 *Recorded at Club B14 in Rotterdam, Holland on March 26, 1971

Personnel

–

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

, synthesizer *

– electric bass, electric piano, piano, vocals *

– drums

References

{{Paul Bley 1971 live albums Paul Bley live albums Annette Peacock albums America Records live albums