Results for "Lennie Tristano"

The New Golden Age of Jazz Radio

by Karl Ackermann
September 30, 2019

There was the Jazz Age, and later, the Golden Age of Radio. There was no golden age of jazz radio unless one considers the brief, ten-year reign of devolution when swing music dominated the airwaves. Think about this: New York City has not had a twenty-four-hour commercial jazz radio station in over ten years; decades longer ...

Istanbul Jazz: So Close to the Music, So Far From New York

by Arthur R George
September 25, 2019

That any musician, old cat, young lion, or apprentice anywhere, endeavors in jazz is amazing enough, given the elusiveness of “success." That is even more true in Istanbul, Turkey: not a conventional jazz capitol, far from the African-American roots of jazz, and even beyond the music's major continental domiciles. Yet the tilting cobblestoned streets of the ...

More Miles/Gallon

by Marc Cohn
August 30, 2019

This week we return with a “Bitches Brew -Day 2" and a “compare and contrast" between two Wayne Shorter tunes (from Super Nova) versus Miles Davis (from Water Babies). But of course, there's more. We moon over Anita O'Day (a centennial warmup) and go to a hotel with Kenny Clarke keeping time on a phone book ...

Sheila Jordan: Lucky to Be Me

by Angelo Leonardi
July 11, 2019

Un nuovo disco di Sheila Jordan, registrato nel novembre 2016 ad 88 anni, non può che suscitare rispetto e amore. La voce mostra fragilità nella pronuncia e nell'intonazione ma la grande cantante statunitense, amica di Charlie Parker e allieva di Lennie Tristano, combatte i limiti dell'età con l'intatta passione, l'intensità interpretativa e l'autenticità di chi non ...

Documentary: Lennie Tristano

July 5, 2019

Take Five with Amir Segall

by AAJ Staff
June 26, 2019

About Amir Segall Amir Segall is a distinctively accomplished pianist, composer and bandleader from the Israeli, and more recently the New York modern and avant-garde jazz scene. Since arriving in New York City, Amir has gained recognition as one of today's most exciting and influential artists. Amir has played and studied classical ...

3 Videos: Lennie Tristano

June 11, 2019

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 ...

Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz: Proto-Cool (1946 - 1955)

by Russell Perry
June 7, 2019

Pianist Lennie Tristano was a very visible participant in the modern jazz innovations of the mid-1940s through the early 1950s, winning polls and participating in all-star jam sessions. Yet his music was always a little outside the mainstream and was increasingly so as he began to experiment with fully improvised performances by 1947. While his focus ...

To Dream the Impossible Dream: the quest for a music education

by Peter Rubie
May 22, 2019

I've been thinking a lot about how jazz is taught recently. I realize now, my search for a real musical education was not a simple thing, but a series of life changing moments. My son, on the other hand, is planning to study music in college after he finishes high school. Though it would fill his ...

Vicenza Jazz 2019

by Libero Farnè
May 22, 2019

Vicenza, varie sedi 9-19.05.2019 “Oltre le colonne d'Ercole, alla ricerca di una nuova luna": questo era il sottotitolo della ventiquattresima edizione di Vicenza Jazz, a significare viaggi per mare alla ricerca di continenti perduti o porti di salvezza, viaggi nello spazio alla conquista di pianeti lontani... o semplicemente viaggi nel frastagliato ...