Jazz Articles about Steve Tintweiss

About Steve Tintweiss

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Steve Tintweiss and the Purple Why: Live at Tompkins Square Park

Read "Live at Tompkins Square Park" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 10, 2026

Bassist Steve Tintweiss forged a career as a sideman to such avant-garde luminaries as tenor saxophonists Albert Ayler and Frank Wright and pianist Burton Greene. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he also led a few bands of rotating memberships. Several of these were recorded live at various venues. In the 2020s, Tintweiss started releasing these sessions on vinyl and CD on his own Inky Dot imprint. The captivating Live in Tompkins Square Park documents a 1967 set from ...

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New Music From Tintweiss, Perelman, Irabagon And More

by Bob Osborne
September 4, 2025

On this edition of World of Jazz there is a selection of new releases coupled with more exciting music from the re-release of the Strata-East catalogue and to open a fascinating snap shot of late-'60s free jazz. Playlist Steve Tintweiss and The Purple Why “California Sandra" from Live In Tompkins Square Park (Inky Dot Media) 00:00 Anna Webber & Angela Morris Big Band “Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band -Unseparate 1" from Unseperate (Out Of Your Head ...

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Albert Ayler: Revelations

Read "Revelations" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
April 18, 2022

There are lovingly curated box sets and there is Albert Ayler's Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings. The 5 x LP / 4 x CD set documents in full the two concerts Ayler gave at the high-end performance and visual arts facility in Provence, France in July 1970, just four months before he passed, so tragically and prematurely. Everything about the release is near perfect, from the sonics through to the hundred-page booklet which project producer Zev Feldman ...

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Cook / Coursil / Gale / Robinson / Tintweiss: Ave B Free Jam

Read "Ave B Free Jam" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
April 3, 2022

A small story to motivate this review. Once upon a time, there was a scholar in a field of the humanities who wrote quite obscurely, even for the humanities, although his prose did not approach the glories of the postmodern. Most agreed that his writing was incomprehensible. It was sesquipedalian, if not totally obscure. In his defense, some would say that, ah, it is a case of poor translation into English, which is not his native language. But then it ...

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Bassist Steve Tintweiss

by A. Henkin
October 28, 2003

At the end of the summer, Steve Tintweiss, best known as bassist for Albert Ayler and Patty Waters, performed at the renovated bandshell in Forest Park in Queens. The performances, which featured a group including clarinetist Perry Robinson and drummer Lou Grassi, marked five decades in which Tintweiss had been producing grant-funded concerts in New York area parks. “I wanted to take the opportunity to bring the new jazz to Queens," said Tintweiss, in a recent conversation in downtown Manhattan. ...