Jump to content

Crosscurrents (Lennie Tristano album)

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crosscurrents
Studio album by
Lennie Tristano
Released1972
RecordedMarch 4, 14, April 23, May 16, August 24, November 2, 1949
GenreJazz
LabelCapitol (M-11060)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Crosscurrents is an album by jazz pianist Lennie Tristano. The sides were recorded in 1949 and the album released by Capitol in 1972.[2] The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013.[3]

Music

[edit]

The first seven tracks are recordings of Tristano's sextet, containing Warne Marsh (tenor sax), Lee Konitz (alto sax), Billy Bauer (guitar), Arnold Fishkin (bass), and Harold Granowsky or Denzil Best (drums; separately). They include "the earliest examples of free improvisation in jazz: 'Intuition' and 'Digression'".[1] It was reissued by Capitol as part of the Intuition 1996 CD re-issue, in combination with Warne Marsh's Jazz of Two Cities.[4] Tracks 8-13 (side B) are an unrelated set of recordings by Buddy DeFranco.

Track listing

[edit]
  1. "Wow" – Lennie Tristano
  2. "Crosscurrent" – Lennie Tristano
  3. "Yesterdays" – Lennie Tristano
  4. "Marionette" - Billie Bauer
  5. "Sax of a Kind" - Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh
  6. "Intuition" - improvisation libre
  7. "Digression" - improvisation libre
  8. "A bird in Igor's Yard - George Russell
  9. "This time the dream's on me" – Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer*
  10. "Extrovert" – Harvey Leonard
  11. "Good for nothing Joe" – Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler
  12. "Aishie" – Theodore Cohen
  13. "Opus 96" – Neal Hefti

Personnel

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b Yanow, Scott "Lennie Tristano: Crosscurrents". AllMusic. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  2. ^ Shim, Eunmi (2007). Lennie Tristano – His Life in Music. University of Michigan Press. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-472-11346-0.
  3. ^ Tamarkin, Jeff (November 21, 2012). "Coltrane, Mingus, Tristano Recordings Honored by Grammy Hall of Fame: Louis Jordan, James Brown, Ray Charles also Awarded". JazzTimes. Archived from the original on October 29, 2014.
  4. ^ Allmusic review by Scott Yanow, Intuition, https://www.allmusic.com/album/intuition-mw0000081084
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crosscurrents_(Lennie_Tristano_album)&oldid=1233532302"