Jazz visions [electronic resource] : Lennie Tristano and his legacy / Peter Ind.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ind, Peter.

Series:

Popular music history.

Popular music history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tristano, Lennie--Criticism and interpretation.

Tristano, Lennie.

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Equinox, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A biography of Lennie Tristano, the blind pianist who was one of jazz's most extraordinary innovators.

Contents:

Cover; contents; preface; Part I: Lennie: The Man and His Music; 1 my early contact with jazz - the sounds of lennie tristano and of charlie parker (bird); 2 my early experiences of new york jazz; 3 living in new york - working with lennie in the early days; 4 other influences on jazz musicians and artists during the fifties; 5 lennie and the changes in jazz from the fifties; 6 lennie's influence and what happened to his associates from those fifties days; 7 a reflection on lennie as I knew him - the man and musician

Part II Lennie: A More Technical Consideratio nof Jazz Improvisation and His Legacy8 what do we mean by jazz?; 9 appreciating jazz improvisation; 10 the technical base of jazz and lennie's approach; Part III: A Reconsideration of Lennie's Legacy; 11 mythmaking about lennie; 12 lennie tristano and the enigma of non-recognition; 13 mythmak ing and prejudices in jazz; 14 reappraisal; bibliography; select discography; index

Notes:

First published: 2005.

Includes bibliography, discography and index.

ISBN:

1-281-74500-6

9786611745004

1-84553-480-8

OCLC:

476190120