Stopping Time: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz
...One could wish for more detail of Bley's charmed life, but even this much of a glimpse is indispensable.   --Cadence, Sept. 2000Mr. Bley has recently published a memoir in which he proves to be a perceptive jazz critic as well as an engaging storyteller. --The New York Times - February 13, 2000Mr. Bley has recently published a memoir in which he proves to be a perceptive critic as well as an engaging storyteller. --The New York Times, February 13, 2000This book is a little jewel: sparsely written and edited, it is beautifully packaged, exquisetly illustrared, equipped with an index and biblipgraphy, and has a thorough discography with over 100 references. It was produced and crafted with love ... In the same manner that jazz music transcends all borders, this book will be circulated off this island as far and as wide as Paul Bley tours. --lWhat ties this sprawling story together is Bley's storytelling - anecdotal, humorous, opinionated and given to plain-spoken philosophical sidetrips into the nature of jazz... The photos, especially the Montreal-era ones, are a vivid complement to the text. --The National Post, December 18, 1999