On April 4, 1978, the Paul Motian Trio with David Izenzon & Charles Brackeen gave a concert for broadcast on WKCR-FM radio, Columbia University’s non-commercial student-run radio station. More Info: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/08/paul-motian-trio-live-at-public-theatre.htmlPhoto: Paul Motian 1977 © Richard Berner| Paul Motian
Paul Motian playing with contemporary Israeli pianist Anat Fort. Interview with Anat Fort. Her new album The Dreamworld of Paul Motian just came out on Sunnyside records. Available through Bandcamp: https://anatfort.bandcamp.com/album/the-dreamworld-of-paul-motian| Paul Motian
Featuring all improvised tunes with Charlie Haden, Paul Bley, Masabumi Kikuchi, Thomas morgan, Enrico Pieranunzi, Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Stephan Oliver, Bruno Chevron and Paul Motian. With readings from the liner notes of Masabumi Kikuchi Trio 2012 album Sunrise on ECM.Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/07/improvised-by-paul-motian-friends-021017.htmlPhoto: Paul Motian © Pierluigi Bumba 1994| Paul Motian
Featuring unreleased rehearsal and concert tapes of the 1980’s Paul Motian Quintet Version 2. With Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Eddie Schuller and Jim Pepper.| Paul Motian
Carla Bley’s epic 1971 album Escalator Over the Hill is featured. Paul Motian played drums on many of the cuts. With readings from the Paul Motian Archive. Podcast & Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2021/05/escalator-over-hill-carla-bley.html Photo: Carla Bley 1971 ©Paul Roughen courtesy JCOA Records| Paul Motian
This week’s show features many early Paul Motian recordings and influences (Warne Marsh, Bill Evans, Tony Scott, Moondog, Lee Konitz) interspersed with Joe Lovano’s 2019 release Trio Tapestry (with Marilyn Crispell & Carmen Castaldi). With readings from the archive. Podcast & Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/04/something-old-something-new-012119.html Photo: Bill Evans, Jimmy Garrison?, Paul Motian location and date unknown photographer unknown […]| Paul Motian
It was great to listen to the 90th Anniversary stream from the Village Vanguard with Once Around the Room for Paul Motian playing last night. So today’s featured podcast is Live From the Village Vanguard. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2022/04/live-at-village-vanguard.html Photo: Paul Motian at the Village Vanguard 1963 photographer unknown c. Paul Motian Archive| Paul Motian
Featuring music Paul Motian recorded in the 1950s with Jerry Wald (1955, where he met Bill Evans), Bill Evans, Don Elliot, Eddie Costa, George Russell, Lennie Tristano, Warne Marsh, & Lee Konitz. With readings from Motian’s unpublished autobiography about these times. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/02/more-music-from-1950s-011419.htmlPhoto: Paul Motian rehearsing with the Jerry Wald Orchestra 1955 […]| Paul Motian
An unreleased cassette tape of Paul Motian practicing and composing on his piano interspersed with recordings with a variety of pianists he played with: Keith Jarrett, Marc Copland, Frank Kimbrough, Marilyn Crispell, Masabumi Kikuchi, Lowell Davidson, Anat Fort, & Bill Evans. Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/02/paul-motian-piano-and-some-pianists.html Photo: Paul Motian & Keith Jarrett 1973 05courtesy ECM Records photographer ©Roberto Masotti| Paul Motian
All live performances by pianist and Paul Motian bandmate Masabumi ‘Poo’ Kikuchi. The unreleased recordings from the 2000s are Courtesy of Paul Motian and Andreas Schmidt collections. Set List & Podcast: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/02/kikuchi-at-home-and-elsewhere-021819.html Photo: Masabumi Kikuchi ©Abby Kikuchi from Black Orpheus CD Booklet Courtesy ECM Records| Paul Motian
