The album "Blood" switches locales from Copenhagen to The Netherlands. The trio approaches the tunes faithfully, but with ears also collectively cocked to opportunities for loose-limbed extemporization, providing an excellent glimpse into the aesthetic at work that earned Bley so much respect and inspired others to follow him. Heavy percussive reiterations of motif and its use of the piano's extended range and dynamics.
Paul Bley - piano.
Mark Levison - bass.
Barry Altschul - drums.
Blood.
Albert's love theme.
El Cordobes.
Only sweetly.
Seven.
Mister Joy.
Ramblin'.
Kid Dynamite.
Nothing ever was, anyway.
Pig foot.
