Becoming

Lennie Tristano · 1961 · Improvisation sur What Is This Thing Called Love?

Context

Opening track of The New Tristano, a solo piano album released on Atlantic in February 1962, the first since 1956. The piece is an improvisation on the changes of "What Is This Thing Called Love?".

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Tristano School, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of Tristano School: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• C Minor Complex (1961)
• Deliberation (1961)
• Line Up (1955)
• East Thirty-Second (1955)
• These Foolish Things (Lennie Tristano) (1955)
• You Go to My Head (1955)

Sources

• EN: The New Tristano

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