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Lennie Tristano Personal Recordings, 1946-1970
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The long-awaited Lennie Tristano box from Mosaic has just been released. Culled from previously unissued material found in the pianist’s personal collection by his daughter, Carol, Lennie Tristano Personal Recordings, 1946-1970 features airchecks, remote wire recordings, live dates preserved by bandstand colleagues, solo tracks recorded at Tristano's East 32nd Street studio in New York and Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey, and group tracks made at Tristano's studio in Hollis, Queens. Jerry Roche of Dot Time Records supervised the ...
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Lennie Tristano: Duo Sessions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1968, pianist Lennie Tristano stopped touring. Traveling had become too much for him and he preferred to focus on teaching. During this period, he recorded with students in his home studio at his loft apartment at 317 East 32nd Street. The tapes of three of Tristano's students appear with him on an album called The Duo Sessions (Dot Time), released last year. The students were saxophonist Lenny Popkin, pianist Connie Crothers and drummer Roger Mancuso. Popkin's October 1970 tracks ...
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3 Videos: Lennie Tristano
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Lennie Tristano's piano had a different sound. When improvising, his left hand typically kept meticulous time with a walking bass line while his right wandered with purpose. Together, they sounded like two people on the same flight of stairs, one plodding up returning home while the other impishly skipping down briskly to get outside. Here are three videos of the blind pianist and cool-jazz innovator during his European tour in 1965: Here's Tristano in Berlin (at 18:17), on a spectacular ...
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Lennie Tristano: Chicago 1951
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of the most important live recordings of the Lennie Tristano Sextet with Lee Kontiz and Warne Marsh has just been released. The material has never before been issued, and the sound is superb, capturing the group's cool sound at its peak and at a critical moment in jazz history, just a year before Lee Konitz would join the Stan Kenton Orchestra. The only live recording that comes later than this one with Lee and Marsh features six tracks captured ...
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Lennie Tristano: The Complete Look Up and Live
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Lennie Tristano was born in Chicago on this day in 1919. At birth, influenza ruined his vision.By his 10th birthday he was blind. Formally trained at a music conservatory, he played piano and, as a 12-year-old clarinetist, led atraditional band. By the time he moved to New York in1946, Tristano had begun deepening the harmonic possibilities in modern jazz and by the end of the decade was a guru to forward looking musicians including saxophonists Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh ...
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"Baboon" -- Latest Album Of Enrico Sartori Tobias Delius Tristan Honsinger, On Rudi Records
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massimo iudicone
BABOON Enrico SARTORI Tobias DELIUS Tristan HONSINGER RRJ1012 Rudi Records Jan/2013 Enrico Sartori: alto sax, bb & alto clarinets Tobias Delius: tenor sax, bb clarinet Tristan Honsinger: cello Rudi Records catalog is proud to welcome two significant exponents of the European improvised music scene: English saxophonist Tobias Delius and the American cellist Tristan Honsinger who had both made Holland their home before moving to Germany. The trio is completed by the Italian ...
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JazzClip: Lennie Tristano (1965)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On the evening of October 31, 1965, pianist Lennie Tristano performed solo at the Tivoli Gardens Concert Hall in Copenhagen. The event was captured for Danish television using multiple camera angles. Several additional Tristano concert performances were recorded on the same tour of Scandinavia and Europe. And that was it. In 1968 Tristano performed publicly for the last time and spent the next 10 years of his life teaching. [Photo above of Lennie Tristano in 1949] As writer Ted Gioia ...
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Tristano and the Robots
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The animated digital robot spoofs springing up on the internet include several aimed at the jazz-insider culture, in particular at the hipper-than-thou talk exchanged among students of the art who may be ever so slightly over-educated and just too cool—but not too cool for words. There are plenty of words in these cartoons. One of the most inviting targets for robot satire is the school of musicians who pattern themselves on the playing and teachings of Lennie Tristano and his ...
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The Pendulum Swings Back to the Tristano School
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AAJ Staff
HAD he enjoyed a different sort of jazz career, you might say that Ted Brown was finally making a comeback. A tenor saxophonist drawn to a light and lyrically swinging style, Mr. Brown turned 83 last month, with just a handful of albums to his name. For the better part of 30 years, from the early 1960s on, he made his living as a computer programmer. “I'm not good at going out and getting gigs," he said recently, sounding resigned ...
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