This show is a digitized cassette of a concert from September 23, 1980.

Recorded Live at Ryles, Boston, MA

The only time this group played together: Paul Motian drums, Charlie Haden bass, Pat Metheney guitar, Julius Hemphill saxophone
Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/11/1980-live-at-ryles-112325.html
Photo: Pat Metheney 1980 © Paul Motian

Unreleased rehearsal tapes of Paul Motian, Bill Frisell & Joe Lovano in 1988. Recorded at Lovano's loft in NYC.
Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/11/1988-motian-frisell-lovano-rehearsals.html
Photo: Joe Lovano, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell 1989 at Bach, Dancing & Dynamite  Half Moon Bay, CA
photographer unknown

Music and readings about guitarist Metheny and drummer Motian. Motian toured with Metheny around 1980.
Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/11/pat-metheny-paul-motian-around-1980.html
Photo: Pat Metheny & Paul Motian at McCabe's in Santa Monica, CA Dec. 1980 photographer unknown courtesy McCabe's & David Goodrich

Eddie Schuller tells stories about the 1980s Paul Motian Quintet. Music with Billy Drewes, Jim Pepper, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell & Paul Motian.
Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/11/eddie-schuller-interview-081919.html
Photo: Paul Motian Quintet  July 4, 1982  Massachusetts, USA
Paul Motian, Eddie Schuller, Billy Drewes, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano

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.html
Photo: Paul Motian 1977 © Richard Berner

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.html
Photo: Paul Motian © Pierluigi Bumba 1994

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

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 in the Paul Motian Archive. With readings from the Archive.
Set List: https://jazzcloset.blogspot.com/2025/07/bley-peacock-motian-when-will-blues.html
Photo: Gary Peacock On the Road March 1999 photo: Paul Motian ©Paul Motian Archive

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

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/something-old-something-new-012119.html
Photo: Bill Evans, Jimmy Garrison?, Paul Motian location and date unknown photographer unknown ©Paul Motian Archive