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Inner City Records · in the Kissa Kissa racks

Paul Bley / NHØP

Paul Bley / NHØP cover
RecordedJun 23 & Jul 1, 1973
LabelInner City Records
Released1973
Personnel2 credited players
Discogsmaster 290748

The record

A duo summit of angular lyricism and telepathy, with NHØP's fleet, singing bass lines matching Bley's spacious, harmonically restless piano at every turn. Recorded in 1973 for Inner City, it captures two masters of understatement trusting silence as much as sound.

Session personnel

  • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen — bass
  • Paul Bley — piano

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

1973SteepleChase · SCS-1005 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file
1973SteepleChase · SCS-1005 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1976Inner City Records
1979SteepleChase · SCS-1005 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Repress, Stereo
1979SteepleChase · SCS-1005 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Repress, Stereo
1980SteepleChase · 15PJ-2006 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1982SteepleChase · UPS-2158-S — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1986SteepleChase · 32JD-76 — CD, Album, Reissue
1990SteepleChase · SCCD 31005 — CD, Album, Reissue
1993Videoarts Music · VAJE-9015 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
2017Think! Records · THCD-508 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
SteepleChase · RJ-6008 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
SteepleChase · SCS-1005 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo

Follow the players

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen also plays on

Paul Bley also plays on