Uncle Paul's Jazz Closet

Updated: 29 Jul 2025 • 136 episodes
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Podcast of a jazz radio show that airs live on WRFR.org on the first 3 Fridays of the month 9-11am. Featuring the music of drummer, composer & bandleader Paul Motian. There are also readings from his autobiography, interviews and liner notes. Visit my blog for more info: www.jazzcloset.blogspot.com.

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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.co

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Featuring unreleased rehearsal and concert tapes of the 19080's Paul Motian Quintet Version 2. With Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Eddie Schuller and Jim Pepper. Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/07/1980s-paul-motian-quintet-v2-part-13.html Photo: Jim Pepper in NYC?Bremen? 1983 photo: Paul Motian

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Paul Bley, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian played together throughout their jazz careers. But they only played all 3 of them together before 1963 and 1999- a 36 year gap. I feature the 2019 ECM release of the 1999 tour concert in Lugano, Switzerland, earlier recordings of them, and excerpts from unreleased cassette tape i

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Carla Bley's epic 1971 album Escalator Over the Hill is featured. Paul Motian played drums on some of the cuts. With readings from the Paul Motian Archive. Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2021/05/escalator-over-hill-carla-bley.html Photo: Carla Bley 1971 ©Paul Roughen courtesy JCOA Records

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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. Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/04/som

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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: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/02/m

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