Stephen Paul Motian[1][2] (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) [3][4] was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer of Armenian descent. He played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties. [5]

W elcome to the Paul Motian Archive, the official site for iconic American jazz drummer and composer Paul Motian (1931-2011). Motian’s life is a timeline of the history of jazz. He played with the greats of Bebop and Cool Jazz, and helped to form Modern Jazz and Free Improvisation.

Over the next six decades, the promising sideman would evolve into an extraordinary jazz bandleader and composer. Stephen Paul Motian (1931-2011) was born in Philadelphia and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Armenian immigrants from Turkey.

2011年11月23日 · Paul Motian, a drummer, bandleader, composer and one of the most influential jazz musicians of the last 50 years, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 80 and lived in...

Drummer Paul Motian died November 22 at age 80. He was a unique sound organizer and constant actor on the jazz scene in New York City for nearly 60 years. He spoke to me for Down Beat in 1986 — an interview I offer in slightly different form below.

2011年11月22日 · Jazz drummer and composer Paul Motian is dead. He died from complications of multiple myeloma early this morning in New York City. He was 80. Though little known outside jazz circles, his...

2012年5月8日 · Starting in the mid-2000s, Motian, who passed away this past November 22 at age eighty, figured out a way to maintain a productive career without leaving Manhattan, and the Vanguard was the venue that hosted him and his varied groups most often.

2011年11月23日 · The news that the iconoclastic and seemingly ageless eighty-year-old drummer, composer, and bandleader died Tuesday morning was like waking to find that your favorite neighborhood...

2011年11月22日 · A masterfully subtle drummer and a superb colorist, Paul Motian is also an advanced improviser and a bandleader with a taste for challenging post-bop.

2020年4月18日 · Motian In Motion is a documentary film about iconic jazz drummer Paul Motian, with rare footage of Paul playing and recording at the world renowned Village Vanguard, Birdland and other venues.