Lennie Tristano created an alternative to bebop, which posed severe demands on ensemble precision, intellectual rigour and instrumental virtuosity. He led the first combo that improvised simultaneously without any preconceived limnits of key and duration, introducing 'free jazz', long before the experiments of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor reached us.

There are 76 tracks on this box set, and a 40 page booklet.

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