Lennie Tristano
Title | Lennie Tristano PDF eBook |
Author | Eunmi Shim |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780472113460 |
The first biography of one of the most influential but unheralded musicians in jazz history
Jazz Visions
Title | Jazz Visions PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ind |
Publisher | Equinox Publishing (UK) |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
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 a neglected 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.
Lee Konitz
Title | Lee Konitz PDF eBook |
Author | Andy Hamilton |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2007-08-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780472032174 |
With a foreword by Joe Lovano, an oral biography of the preeminent alto saxophonist of cool jazz
The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz
Title | The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Ratliff |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2002-11-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780805070682 |
Offers an informed collector's guide to one hundred top recorded works of jazz, profiling each piece in a context of its importance to the development of the form.
Lennie Tristano on LP's Records
Title | Lennie Tristano on LP's Records PDF eBook |
Author | Harald Hollenstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Jazz musicians |
ISBN |
Discography of the "uncompromising Lennie Tristano"
Title | Discography of the "uncompromising Lennie Tristano" PDF eBook |
Author | Jürgen W. Susat |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Masters Of Bebop
Title | The Masters Of Bebop PDF eBook |
Author | Ira Gitler |
Publisher | Da Capo Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2009-02-18 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 078674524X |
Back in the early 1940s, late at night in the clubs of Harlem, a handful of jazz musicians began to experiment with a style that no one had ever heard before. The music was fast, complicated, impossible to play for many of the older musicians—but it soon became the lingua franca of jazz music. They called it bebop, and as the years went by, it became even more popular. Today it reigns as perhaps the best-loved style of jazz ever created. Ira Gitler conveys the excitement of this musical birth as only someone who was there can. In The Masters of Bebop, Gitler traces the advent of what was a revolution in sound. He profiles the leading players—Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillepie, Max Roach—but also studies the style and music of the first disciples, such as Dexter Gordon and J. J. Johnson, to reveal bebop’s pervasive influence throughout American culture. Revised with an updated discography—and with a new chapter covering bebop right up through the end of the twentieth century—The Masters of Bebop is the essential listener’s handbook.