Lennie Tristano created an alternative to bebop, which posed severe demands on ensemble precision, intellectual rigor and instrumental virtuosity. He led the first combo that improvised simultaneously without any preconceived limits of key and duration, introducing "Free Jazz", long before the experiments of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor reached us.
Intuition - Tristano, Lennie
Disc 1
1. Tea For Two 8:18
2. Tea For Two (Take 2) 2:56
3. Blue Lou 2:52
4. These Foolish Things 2:33
5. These Foolish Things (Take 2) 2:35
6. It's The Talk Of The Town 2:13
7. It's The Talk Of The Town (Take 2) 3:16
8. Yesterdays 3:03
9. What Is This Thing Called Love? 2:47
10. Don't Blame Me 2:49
11. I Found A New Baby 2:46
12. I Can't Get Started 2:53
13. A Night In Tunisia 2:21
14. Out On A Limb 2:36
15. Out On A Limb 2:48
16. Out On A Limb 2:39
17. I Can't Get Started 2:57
18. I Can't Get Started 2:54
19. I Surrender Dear 2:33
20. I Surrender Dear 2:16
21. I Surrender Dear 3:05
22. Interlude 3:04
23. Interlude 2:31
24. Interlude 2:58
25. Interlude 2:53
26. Interlude 1:40
27. Interlude 3:00
Disc 2
1. Untitled Blues 3:46
2. Blue Boy 2:47
3. Atonement 2:27
4. Coolin' Off With Ulanov 2:47
5. Coolin' Off With Ulanov 2:28
6. I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You 2:53
7. Spontaneous Combustion 2:55
8. Just Judy 2:38
9. Supersonic 3:18
10. On A Planet 3:17
11. Air Pocket 2:44
12. Celestia 2:54
13. Freedom 3:37
14. Parallel 2:28
15. Apellation 1:53
16. Abstraction 2:38
17. Palimpsest 2:37
18. Dissonance 2:38
19. Through These Portals 2:16
20. Speculation 2:24
21. New Sound 2:16
22. Resemblance 2:22
Disc 3
1. Victory Ball 4:12
2. Tautology 2:44
3. Subconscious Lee 2:48
4. Retrospection 3:07
5. Judy 2:54
6. Wow 3:21
7. Crosscurrent 2:50
8. Yesterdays 2:46
9. Marionette 3:04
10. Sax Of A Kind 2:59
11. Intuition 2:26
12. Digression 3:05
13. Remember 7:41
14. Pennies 5:45
15. Foolish Things 4:06
16. Indiana 5:42
17. I'm No Good Without You 4:19
Disc 4
1. Sax Of A Kind 5:12
2. You Go To My Head 4:34
3. Ju-Ju 2:13
4. Passtime 3:38
5. Lennie's Pennies 6:12
6. 317 East 32nd 9:19
7. You Go To My Head 6:43
8. April 8:42
9. Sound-Lee 7:37
10. Back-Home 7:56
DISCOGRAPHY
Disc One: OUT ON A LIMB
Emmett Carls Sextet 1945, featuring Lennie Tristano : Shorty Rogers, tp; Earl Swope, tb; Emmett Carls, ts; Lennie Tristano, p; Chubby Jackson, b; Don Lamond, d.
New York, May 1945
-1 TEA FOR TWO
-2 TEA FOR TWO (TAKE 2)
BLUE LOU
-1 THESE FOOLISH THINGS
-2 THESE FOOLISH THINGS (TAKE 2)
-1 ITâ??S THE TALK OF THE TOWN
-2 ITâ??S THE TALK OF THE TOWN (TAKE 2)
Lennie Tristano, p
Chicago, 1946
YESTERDAYS
WHAT IS THIS THING
CALLED LOVE
DONâ??T BLAME ME
I FOUND A NEW BABY
Lennie Tristano Trio : Lennie Tristano, p;
Billy Bauer, g; Leonard Gaskin, b.
New York, late 1946
JBB 268 I CANâ??T GET STARTED
JBB 268 A NIGHT IN TUNISIA
Lennie Tristano Trio : Lennie Tristano, p;
Billy Bauer, g; Clyde Lombardi, b.
New York, October 8, 1946
HL 176-1 OUT ON A LIMB
HL 176-2 OUT ON A LIMB
HL 176-3 OUT ON A LIMB
HL 177-1 I CANâ??T GET STARTED
HL 177-2 I CANâ??T GET STARTED
HL 178-1 I SURRENDER DEAR
HL 178-2 I SURRENDER DEAR
HL 178-3 I SURRENDER DEAR
HL 179-1 INTERLUDE
HL 179-2 INTERLUDE
HL 179-3 INTERLUDE
HL 179-4 INTERLUDE
HL 179-5 INTERLUDE
HL 179-6 INTERLUDE
Disc Two: NEW SOUND
Lennie Tristano Trio : Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Clyde Lombardi, b.
New York, October 8, 1946
UNTITLED BLUES
Lennie Tristano Trio : Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Bob Leininger, b.
New York, March 23, 1947
KH 200 BLUE BOY
KH 201 ATONEMENT
KH 202-1 COOLINâ?? OFF WITH ULANOV
KH 202-2 COOLINâ?? OFF WITH ULANOV
Lennie Tristano, p
New York, September 23, 1947
D7VB 1649 I DONâ??T STAND A GHOST OF A CHANCE WITH YOU
D7VB 1650 SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION
D7VB 1651 JUST JUDY
Lennie Tristano, p; Bily Bauer, g; John Levy, b
New York, October 23, 1947
SUPERSONIC
ON A PLANET
AIR POCKET
CELESTIA
Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Arnold Fishkin, b.
New York, December 31, 1947
FREEDOM
PARALLEL
APELLATION
ABSTRACTION
PALIMPSEST
DISSONANCE
John La Porta, cl, Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Arnold Fishkin, b.
New York, December 31, 1947
THROUGH THESE PORTALS
SPECULATION
NEW SOUND
RESEMBLANCE
Disc Three: CROSSCURRENTS
The Metronome All Stars : Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, tp; J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, tb; Buddy de Franco, cl; Charlie Parker, as; Charlie Ventura, ts; Ernie Caceres, bs; Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Eddie Safranski, b; Shelly Manne, d; Pete Rugolo, arr; dir.
New York, January 3, 1949
D9VB 0022 VICTORY BALL
Lennie Tristano Quintet/Quartet : Lee Konitz, as; Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Arnold Fishkin, b; Shelly Manne, d (-1)
New York, January 11, 1949
JRC 3 TAUTOLOGY (-1)
JRC 8 SUBCONSCIOUS LEE (-1)
JRC 10 RETROSPECTION
JRC 11-B JUDY
Lennie Tristano Sextette : Lee Konitz, as; Warne Marsh, ts; Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Arnold Fishkin, b; Harold Granowsky, d.
New York, March 4, 1949
3413 WOW
3414 CROSSCURRENT
Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Arnold Fishkin, b; Harold Granowsky, d.
New York, March 14, 1949
3714-1 YESTERDAYS
Lennie Tristano Sextette : Lee Konitz, as; Warne Marsh, ts; Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Arnold Fishkin, b; Denzil Best, d.
New York, May 16, 1949
3784 MARIONETTE
3785 SAX OF A KIND
3786-2 INTUITION
3787 DIGRESSION
Lennie Tristano Quintet : Warne Marsh, ts; Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Arnold Fishkin, b; Jeff Morton, d.
Birdland, New York, 1949
REMEMBER
PENNIES
FOOLISH THINGS
INDIANA
Iâ??M NO GOOD WITHOUT YOU
Disc Four: LENNIEâ??S PENNIES
Lee Konitz, as; Warne Marsh, ts; Lennie Tristano, p; Billy Bauer, g; Joe Shulman, b; Jeff Morton, d.
Carnegie Hall, New York, December 24, 1949
SAX OF A KIND
YOU GO TO MY HEAD
Lennie Tristano, p; Peter Ind, b; Roy Haynes, d.
New York, October 30, 1951
EIKB-4138-1 JU-JU
EIKB-4139-1 PASSTIME
Lee Konitz, as; Warne Marsh, ts; Lennie Tristano, p; Peter Ind, b; Al Levitt, d.
UGPO Hall, Toronto, Canada, July 17, 1952
LENNIEâ??S PENNIES
317 EAST 32ND
YOU GO TO MY HEAD
APRIL
SOUND-LEE
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