C Minor Complex

Lennie Tristano · 1961 · Pièce de piano solo sur lignes de basse à la main gauche

Context

Second track of The New Tristano. The record relies on left-hand bass lines, block chords and shifting rhythms, with no overdubbing or tape speed alteration.

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

• Becoming (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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