Lennie Tristano

Do The Math - Article

B T — Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:24 pm

Author: B T

Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:24 pm

Marv Friedenn wrote:

Moving on to 2001, Bud Tristano and Connie Crothers dispose of rhythm altogether, which at once unmoors music from dance and sets it adrift toward . . . what? The visual arts? I would say rather the vibratory arts which include the visual, the audial and the alchemical--that is, the vibratory creation of matter. In any case, with �Primal Elegance� Bud and Connie produce simultaneously, extending from one piece to the next, two separate, spontaneously improvised musical compositions which vibrate together without either surrendering its autonomy to the other. It�s like hearing music issuing from two unrelated sources but which coincide with each other with surprisingly high frequency. If, as on �Descent Into The Maelstrom,� Lennie produced the effect of group improvisation by means of overdubbing, here Bud and Connie produce the effect of overdubbing although they improvise together on the same track.

I like this. I might quote this in the future if you don't mind.

Sheila Jordan

jostber — Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:11 pm

Author: jostber

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:11 pm

Concert:

http://www.stamfordplus.com/stm/information/nws1/publish/News_1/Sunken_Garden_Poetry_Music_Festival_at_Hill-Stead_Museum2541.shtml

and article:

http://www.wirenh.com/Features/Features_-_general/a_messenger_for_music_200804232878.html

Charles Mingus and Lennie Tristano

Marv Friedenn — Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:25 pm

Author: Marv Friedenn

Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:25 pm

In the ride-to-the-gig story, once Lennie gets the attention of the passengers with his provocative remark about race, he relates the anecdote about Woody. Lennie's message is: if you think being black is a handicap, you ought to try being blind. Even the members of your own race will exploit your handicap.

In the proposed fight-in-the-dark episode, Lennie demonstrates to Charles that if Charles doesn't foresee the blow coming from below, then Charles is already as blind as Lennie. So there's no need to turn off the lights.

But this story resonates. According to Lee Konitz, black musicians referred to the members of Lennie's sextet as "The Six Blind Mice," meaning that Lennie's band was made up of little Tristanos, that is, they all imitated Lennie. Also implied in the slur is that compared to the aggressive black "cats," the Tristanoites are timid mice. For the sake of fairness, then, Charles, who is a "cat," will condescend to morph into a mouse. Lennie, however, declines the favor. For, as in the cartoons, the mouse has a surprise for the cat.

Cyndi Lauper

jostber — Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:30 pm

Author: jostber

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:30 pm

Who would have thought that of Cyndi?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080604.LAUPER04/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Music/

Grace Kelly & Lee Konitz

jostber — Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:01 pm

Author: jostber

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:01 pm

A new record from:

http://top40-charts.com/news/Jazz/Saxophonist-Grace-Kelly-To-Release-CD-GRACEfulLEE--With-Frontline-Partner-Lee-Konitz-On-July-8-2008/40717.html

Sounds like interesting stuff.

New Yorkers 100 Essential Jazz Albums

keith — Mon May 19, 2008 6:23 am

Author: keith

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:23 am

"Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh, �Intuition� (Blue Note, 1996; tracks recorded 1949 and 1956)."

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/05/19/080519on_onlineonly_remnick?currentPage=all

Mistakes: a Pink Floyd thought out of Lennie Tristano.

Marv Friedenn — Sun May 18, 2008 9:27 am

Author: Marv Friedenn

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:27 am

I put words to a well known Lennie Tristano solo. From Pink Floyd I took the idea that all the different people we might have been finally shake down into a clown. Can you guess the solo? The poem is from a self-published book called The Birds On Doty, pssst press, 1988.

"Mistakes are merely the correct choices of the clever kids you played with as a child before you moved away whose doubles you keep running into.

Alternate selves reaching out through the finger misdailing the phone swinging out wildly gasping for air before with age they pass from inner view.

They leave while you're asleep when you're least aware they pack their bags and leave and that's when you have your circus dream.

From the roof of a tent a spot pokes a hole through the gloom like the star of Bethlehem on a foggy night and flattens against the ice cream base of its cone a man with a whip in his hand and a frog in his throat who seems the only person in the world who knows what's coming next.

Certainty. That's the illusion. That's what we wrap around while we're unwinding. That's why we roll the bigboy in the sack trying to get some feedback from a quack that the dwarf hasn't pulled a prank. And when we request for the final act of the show to please welcome now the Rajah's elephants, that the dwarf won't appear in woolen underwear with a stovepipe hat on his head sitting astride a wooden horse on wheels drawn by a goat.

I love mistakes. Because what they leave when they go is all too true."

Live at Cafe Bohemia on CD!

Dr.Jellyfish — Fri May 16, 2008 7:53 am

Author: Dr.Jellyfish

Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:53 am

here is the personnel:

LENNIE TRISTANO SEXTET: Lennie Tristano (p), Bill Harris (tr), Flip Phillips (ts), Billy Bauer (g), Chubby Jackson (b), Denzil Best (d). Pianist Argonne Thornton replaces Tristano on track 5 only.

BONUS TRACKS (6-: Lennie Tristano (p), Lee Konitz (as), Warne Marsh (ts), Sonny Dallas (b), Nick Stabulas (d). "Look up and Live" TV Broadcast, Live from the Half Note, New York, June 1964

tracks 1 to 5 are from the rare LP "A knight in the Village", I think never issued on CD before

- Here in Sardegna it's a strange weather, some cold for this season... -

New CD release: "The Incredibly Innovative"

jostber — Thu May 15, 2008 2:48 am

Author: jostber

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:48 am

I'm very fine, thanks!

How's Sardegna these pre-summer days?

New DVD "The Definitive Lennie Tristano" - Anyone

Dr.Jellyfish — Wed May 14, 2008 9:08 am

Author: Dr.Jellyfish

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 9:08 am

you find it at www.jazzmessengers.com
yes, it seems really interesting,
there is the whole copenhagen concert, plus
live at the half note and the two songs from berlin piano workshop

the string quartet known as Ethel

keith — Tue May 13, 2008 5:46 am

Author: keith

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:46 am

This unconventional, amplified string quartet performs a version of Requiem.

http://www.myspace.com/ethelcentral

It's available on iTunes...

(Yes, its been a slow posting month on the board...)

Keith

Joe Satriani article

jostber — Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:50 pm

Author: jostber

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:50 pm

http://yourdl.com/2008/04/direct-download-2-great-video-clips.html

Sal Mosca: UN-SUNG

keith — Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:42 am

Author: keith

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:42 am

A short documentary about the life of Sal Mosca.

From the site:

Quote:

Synopsis: The first and only film on the legendary late pianist. After playing with greats like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Lee Konitz, and Sarah Vaughn, Sal Mosca led a strange hermetic life creating some of the most innovative music in jazz history.

http://moviehatch.com/jackson/movie/65/

Keith

Mike Garson - Jazz Hat

jostber — Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:06 am

Author: jostber

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:06 am

Sounds interesting:

http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=3894

24 Bit Lennie

jostber — Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:52 am

Author: jostber

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:52 am

His most reissued record?

http://www.amazon.com/Tristano-Lennie/dp/B0011VJRY2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203940014&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Tristano-Lennie/dp/B000BDJ1JC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203940014&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.com/Tristano-Lennie/dp/B000KHXFZ0/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203940014&sr=1-8
http://www.amazon.com/Lennie-Tristano/dp/B0006GAOA4/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203940348&sr=1-15
http://www.amazon.com/Tristano-Lennie/dp/B0000C24JU/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203940348&sr=1-23
http://www.amazon.com/Lennie-Tristano/dp/B000024AOP/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203940348&sr=1-24
http://www.amazon.com/Lennie-Tristano-New/dp/B00000337V/ref=sr_1_48?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203940425&sr=1-48