Jazz Articles about Warne Marsh

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Revolutionary Aesthetics: Exploring Warne Marsh's Overthrow of Sweet Georgia Brown

by Daniel Casares
September 26, 2026

Saxophonist Warne Marsh was a revolutionary and somewhat obscure figure in the development of jazz in the 20th century. He was, along with Lee Konitz, one of the most influential saxophonists to emerge from pianist Lennie Tristano's “school" of jazz improvisation, although Marsh never achieved the commercial success and recognition that Konitz amassed over the years. “Tristanoites" developed, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, a distinct approach to jazz performance and composition based on thoroughly memorizing solos by artists ...

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Saxophones: Warne Marsh, Sonny Rollins, and the Microscopic Septet

by Jerome Wilson
January 22, 2025

This show, from June 15, 2021, is an all saxophone (plus flute and clarinet) program. Players featured include Warne Marsh, Sonny Rollins, Frank Wright, Joe Henderson, and The Microscopic Septet. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Reeds and Deeds “Hittin' The Jug" from Cookin' (Criss Cross) 1:05 Dave Pietro “Gina" from Hypersphere (ArtistShare) 9:03 Host Speaks 15:02 Eric Dolphy/Booker ...

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Lennie Tristano Personal Recordings, 1946-1970

by Peter Rubie
February 24, 2022

They called it the Cool School, but what's in a name?In this case, quite a lot as it happens. The Cool School included musicians like Chet Baker, John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Dave Brubeck. Under the guidance of arranger and composer Gil Evans, it established itself in an unquestionable way with the release of Miles Davis' album Birth of the Cool (Capitol Records) in 1957, though the music had actually been recorded some eight or ...

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Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz: Two Not One

by Nic Jones
January 20, 2010

Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz Two Not One Storyville 2009

The cumulative impression of this four-disc reissue of sets tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz recorded in the 1970s is one of exceptional creativity. Both men were and are masters of the art of never repeating themselves and a set of this scope really brings the point home.

By this stage in their respective careers it was in many ...

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Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz: Two Not One

by Chris Mosey
November 22, 2009

In 1975, the members of a musical appreciation society called The Danish Jazz Exchange clubbed together to bring their two favorite American improvisers, Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz, to their homeland. They then listened in rapt attention as the saxophonists played a series of concerts at Montmartre, then Copenhagen's premier jazz venue. The shadow of blind pianist/teacher Lennie Tristano, with whom Marsh and Konitz studied in the 1950s, and who was to die three years after these tracks were cut, ...

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Warne Marsh: Ne Plus Ultra

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 8, 2006

Provate a chiedere a qualche buon appassionato di jazz notizie che non siano meno che generiche su Warne Marsh. Con una certa probabilità - e esclusi alcuni “cultori" - le informazioni saranno più o meno quella manciata: la militanza nel gruppo di Tristano, il cool, Konitz, poco di più. Beh, non che il nostro abbia fatto poi molto per autopromuoversi, nel corso di una carriera che dalla seconda metà degli anni Quaranta ha proceduto a larghe volute [un moto evidentemente ...

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Warne Marsh Quartet: Ne Plus Ultra

by Brad Glanden
July 4, 2006

As a protégé of Lennie Tristano in the late 1940s and early 1950s, tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh learned lessons that shaped his playing until his death in 1987. He has inspired a cult following among musicians, particularly saxophonists seeking an alternative to the John Coltrane approach, and Ne Plus Ultra fully justifies his status as a legend of the cool school.

Recorded in 1969 with a thoroughly rehearsed ensemble, the date finds Marsh exploring conventional forms with precision and depth. ...