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Andreas Schmidt / John Schroder / Christian Ramond: Hommage a Tristano

Read "Hommage a Tristano" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The enigmatic Lennie Tristano receives due attention from German pianist Andreas Schmidt on Hommage a Tristano. Blind from infancy, Tristano became proficient on several musical instruments, but he claimed his fame in composition and arrangement. He took the prevailing bebop wind of Parker, Powell and Gillespie and infused it with a harmonic awareness of both baroque and modern classicism. In 1949, a decade before Ornette Coleman broke out, Tristano was producing what would later be called “free jazz.

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