In 2008, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2009 the book Paul Bley: The Logic of Chance, written in Italian by jazz pianist Arrigo Cappelletti and translated into English by jazz pianist Greg Burk, was published. In addition to touring solo in the US and Europe, Bley released several solo piano recordings in this decade, including Basics, Nothing to Declare and About Time for Justin Time Records and Solo in Mondsee and Play Blue - Oslo Concert for ECM Records. Paul Bley's last public performances were in 2010 playing a solo piano concert at the La Villette Jazz Festival in Paris, followed by a duo with Charlie Haden at BlueNote in New York City during a full moon. Paul Bley died of natural causes on January 3, 2016, at home in Stuart, Florida, at the age of 83. Discography References External links Paul Bley homepage "Service for Paul Bley" by Ethan Iverson 1932 births 2016 deaths Anglophone Quebec people Avant-garde jazz keyboardists Avant-garde jazz pianists BYG Actuel artists Canadian people of Romanian-Jewish descent Columbia Records artists Canadian male jazz musicians Canadian jazz pianists Canadian jazz composers ECM Records artists ESP-Disk artists Free jazz keyboardists Free jazz pianists Freedom Records artists Jewish Canadian musicians Members of the Order of Canada Milestone Records artists Musicians from Montreal Post-bop keyboardists Bebop pianists Post-bop pianists Savoy Records artists SteepleChase Records artists Canadian expatriates in the United States Justin Time Records artists Improvising Artists Records artists McGill University School of Music alumni EmArcy Records artists