Paul Bley obituary

Adventurous pianist who participated in some of the pivotal groups of modern jazzIf jazz is a music of constant change, then the Canadian pianist Paul Bley, who has died aged 83, was one of the most steadfast proponents of that demanding characteristic. “Anything you play twice is once too much,” he said, in one of the aphorisms that seemed to come to him as naturally as the endlessly varied keyboard phrases, each seemingly fresh-minted, that he created throughout a professional care