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Lennie Tristano: Out of Nowhere / 317 East 32nd Street (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Lennie Tristano made only a few visits to recording studios during his long career. His fans are thus forced to sear...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lennie Tristano (with Lee Konitz): All the Things You Are (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

In the annals of jazz history, the Sing Song Room of the Confucius Restaurant will never be confused with Birdland or...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Charlie Parker & Lennie Tristano: I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 31, 08

This rare private recording finds Bird visiting Lennie Tristano at 317 E. 32nd St., where the pianist had set up a mo...

Lennie Tristano: Line Up (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 20, 09

Using early (1955) multi-tracking techniques in his home studio, Tristano recorded his piano over prerecorded rhythm ...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: FRANK KIMBROUGH

Not many jazz musicians have had a stronger revitalizing and sustaining impact on the everyday NYC jazz scene over ...

Lennie Tristano: Line Up (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

When this track was first released, it attracted enormous attention . . . but not for the music. Tristano had "tampe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lennie Tristano (with Lee Konitz): If I Had You (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 07, 08

Mr. Tristano's musical persona had so many different sides. Here he comps with thick, bouncy voicings behind Konitz'...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lennie Tristano: I Can't Get Started (1946) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 19, 08

I rarely find this recording discussed in jazz circles or cited in the history books, but Gunther Schuller called spe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Eric Rasmussen: Lennie Bird (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 13, 09

As the reader perhaps knows, I have defended the music of Lennie Tristano with the fervor of a true believer (and whe...

Clare Fischer: Lennie's Pennies (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 28, 07

A wandering, unmeasured prelude morphs into a bristling rendition of cool jazz icon Lennie Tristano’s complex line ov...

Lennie Tristano: Intuition (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 26, 08

Here is another first for Lennie Tristano. "Intuition" represents the first collective improvisation in the history ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lennie Tristano: Wow (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 18, 07

Lennie Tristano offered jazz's answer to abstract expressionism. A graduate of Chicago's American Conservatory of Mus...

Lennie Tristano: Expressions (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 29, 08

The mid-1960s was a period of ferment and experimentation in the jazz world, and Lennie Tristano continued to develop...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lennie Tristano: Descent Into the Maelstrom (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

Years before Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman released their first LPs, Lennie Tristano offers up an intense example ...

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Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lennie Tristano: Background Music (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 17, 08

The sound quality is quite poor, and the performance is incomplete. But Tristano's solo here is absolutely riveting,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lennie Tristano: Yesterdays [Glad I Am] (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 22, 08

Here is one CD that you can't judge by its cover. The song is listed as "Glad I Am," but is actually "Yesterdays." ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lennie Tristano: Don't Blame Me (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 17, 08

Charlie Parker was in the studio the day this was recorded (as part of an all-star band assembled by Barry Ulanov), a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lennie Tristano: Ghost of a Chance (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 30, 08

The day before this Halloween concert in Copenhagen, Tristano shared the stage in Berlin with Bill Evans, John Lewis,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lee Konitz: Subconscious-Lee (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 21, 09

This tune, which Lee Konitz would re-record several times during the following decades, is particularly interesting i...

Sonny Rollins, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Lennie Tristano on DVD posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 06, 09

Thomas Cunniffe is an erudite commentator on matters jazzy, and our resident expert on the many jazz DVDs coming...

Tristano, Lennie (Leonard Joseph) posted in Encyclopedia March 21, 08

The name of Lennie Tristano is known by few outside the world of jazz musicians. An early contributor to the bebop st...

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