# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-bley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:42:21.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-bley"
name: "Paul Bley"
slug: "paul-bley"
description: "Paul Bley, CM was a Canadian jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and ARP synthesizers. His music has been described by Ben Ratliff of the New York Times as \"deeply original and aesthetically aggressive\". Bley's prolific output includes influential recordings from the 1950s through to his solo piano recordings of the 2000s."
tagline: "Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist (1932-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Bley%2C_1968.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1932-11-10"
deathDate: "2016-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8781173164734808
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  250
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "PaulBleyMusic"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump