Lennie Tristano

piano · 1919–1978 · Chicago

A pianist born in Chicago and blind from childhood, Lennie Tristano developed from the 1940s a structured method of teaching improvisation that trained, among others, Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh. In 1949, his pieces Intuition and Digression were among the first recordings of freely improvised jazz.

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Styles

• Tristano School
• Cool (Birth of the Cool)

Landmark tracks

• Intuition (1949)
• Digression (1949)
• Line Up (1955)

Sources

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