Oh, nobody ever said that Bley's career needed BN "validation". My original, plain and simple curiosity was just to see "how his impact/image would've been if, say, his 60's output had been made under one label" (instead of multiple, sometimes "confidential" labels), Blue Note being one of the evident major labels at the time. It could have been Riverside, or Columbia or or or...
(for purely egotistical reasons, it would have given me access to remastered versions of Footloose! and Ramblin' , and just plain access to Blood [Fontana] and Mr. Joy [Limelight]
On a unrelated note, always liked that picture of Bley in discussion Bill Evans and Ron Carter. Caption suggestions?