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Jazz Visions
Lennie Tristano was one of jazz's most extraordinary innovators, possessing a superb piano technique and an awesome musical imagination. Unheralded by the general public, the blind pianist's work was revered by many jazz greats including the legendary Charlie Parker. Tristano's persuasive personalit... Read more
Published: 2005
Pages: 223
eBook: 9781845530457
Lennie Tristano was one of jazz's most extraordinary innovators, possessing a superb piano technique and an awesome musical imagination. Unheralded by the general public, the blind pianist's work was revered by many jazz greats including the legendary Charlie Parker. Tristano's persuasive personality made him an ideal teacher, and he proved that (against the accepted theory of the time) jazz improvisation could be taught. His guidance played a big part in the development of many instrumentalists including saxophonists Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh and double-bassist Peter Ind. It is Ind's long, direct involvement with his subject that makes this such a revealing book: the story of an English musician going to New York to study with an unsung Jazz giant. In the process, Tristano's genius is examined and his reputation revalued, with Ind making a persuasive case for the pianist to be placed at the centre of jazz developments in the mid-20th century.
| Cover | Cover | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| contents | v | ||
| preface | vii | ||
| Part I: Lennie: The Man and His Music | 1 | ||
| 1 my early contact with jazz – the sounds of lennie tristano and of charlie parker (bird) | 3 | ||
| 2 my early experiences of new york jazz | 10 | ||
| 3 living in new york – working with lennie in the early days | 28 | ||
| 4 other influences on jazz musicians and artists during the fifties | 39 | ||
| 5 lennie and the changes in jazz from the fifties | 51 | ||
| 6 lennie’s influence and what happened to his associates from those fifties days | 70 | ||
| Lee Konitz (b. 1927) | 70 | ||
| Warne Marsh (b. 1927, d. 1987) | 75 | ||
| Sal Mosca (b. 1927) | 77 | ||
| Ronnie Ball (b. 1927, d. 1984) | 79 | ||
| Don Ferrara (b. 1928) | 83 | ||
| Willie Dennis (William DeBernardinis, b. 1926, d. 1965) | 85 | ||
| Billy Bauer (b. 1915, d. 2005) | 86 | ||
| Ted Brown (b. 1927) | 87 | ||
| Arnold Fishkin (b. 1919, d. 1999) | 88 | ||
| Jeff Morton (Jeffrey Morton Haber, b. 1929, d. 1997) | 88 | ||
| Al (Alan) Levitt (b. 1932, d. 1994) | 89 | ||
| Dick Scott (Tox Drohar) | 89 | ||
| Peter Ind (b. 1928) | 91 | ||
| 7 a reflection on lennie as I knew him – the man and musician | 98 | ||
| Part II Lennie: A More Technical Consideratio nof Jazz Improvisation and His Legacy | 109 | ||
| 8 what do we mean by jazz? | 111 | ||
| 9 appreciating jazz improvisation | 120 | ||
| 10 the technical base of jazz and lennie’s approach | 128 | ||
| Part III: A Reconsideration of Lennie’s Legacy | 143 | ||
| 11 mythmaking about lennie | 145 | ||
| 12 lennie tristano and the enigma of non-recognition | 157 | ||
| 13 mythmak ing and prejudices in jazz | 173 | ||
| 14 reappraisal | 196 | ||
| bibliography | 205 | ||
| select discography | 207 | ||
| Lennie Tristano | 207 | ||
| Lee Konitz | 207 | ||
| Warne Marsh | 207 | ||
| Ronnie Ball | 207 | ||
| Willie Dennis | 208 | ||
| Tox Drohar | 208 | ||
| Sal Mosca | 208 | ||
| Ted Brown | 208 | ||
| Peter Ind | 208 | ||
| Billy Bauer | 208 | ||
| index | 209 |