One of the innovators in jazz and an artist somewhat overlooked by critics and the general public, blind pianist Lennie Tristano (1919-1978) arrived on the scene in the second half of the Forties showing a highly personal concept of what jazz music ought to be: Tristano's interest in feeling and spontaneity, polyphony and counterpoint, led to a very complex and intriguing approach that exerted enormous influence on jazzmen as diverse as Charles Mingus, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods or Warne Marsh. The first artist to perform and record (as early as in 1949) a type of music that a decade later came to be known as free jazz, Tristano's music expanded the then prevailing bebop aesthetic, bringing to the music of Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie a harmonic language related to that of contemporary classic composition, making extensive use of counterpoint and resorting to polyphonal effects in an unprecedented manner. We are talking, in short, of one of the most important stylists in jazz music.

Recorded in 1965 at Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens Concert Hall, this solo concert showcases the blind master from Chicago's unique approach to jazz piano. This is marvellous music by a top-rank performer in splendid artistic form, an essential appearance by one the key figures in Twentieth Century jazz

TRACKS:
[1] Darn That Dream (Van Heusen-De Lang)
[2] Lullaby of the Leaves (Petkere-Young)
[3] Expressions (Tristano)
[4] You Don't Know WHat Love Is (Raye-DePaul)
[5] Tivoli Gardens Swing (Tristano)
[6] Ghost Of A Chance (Crosby-Washington-Young)
[7] It's You Or No One (Cahn-Styne)
[8] Imagination (Van Heusen-Burke)
[9] Tangerine (Mercer-Schertzinger)
Lennie Tristano (solo piano)
Recorded at Tivoli Gardens Concert Hall, Copenhagen, 31st October 1965.

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