Lennie Tristano was an innovative jazz pianist whose approach to jazz was entirely unique. To a A well researched biography including musical analysis of selected performances. Feeling were thought coming from "The Id" and the ultimate musical goal was to express ones feeling in the moment. The theories of Freud and Reich, now mostly considered pseudo-scientific, resulted in his idea of separation of emotion and feeling, with the first essentially meaning raw basic emotions coming from "The ego". This is her first book.moreĪ well researched biography including musical analysis of selected performances. in musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is now Assistant Professor of Music at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
With its blend of oral history, archival research, and musical analysis, Lennie Tristano sheds new light on the important role Tristano played in the jazz world and introduces this often-overlooked musician to a new generation of jazz aficionados.Įunmi Shim received her Ph.D. He founded a jazz school-the first of its kind-among whose students were saxophonists Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz, and pianist Sal Mosca. Tristano was also a pioneer in the teaching of jazz, devoting the latter part of his career almost exclusively to music instruction.
Then, in the 1950s, Tristano broke new ground by his use of multitracking. In 1949, years before musicians such as Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor took credit for the movement, Tristano made the first recordings of “free jazz,” a new kind of group improvisation based on spontaneous interaction among band members without any regard for predetermined form, harmony, or rhythm. In so doing, he tested and transcended the boundaries of jazz. Emerging from an era when modernism was the guiding principle in art, Tristano explored musical avenues that were avant-garde even by modernism’s experimental standards. Lennie Tristano occupies a rare position not only in jazz history but in the history of twentieth-century music. Larry Kart, author of Jazz in Search of Itself “Comprehensive, objective, and acute in its judgments, this is the biography of Lennie Tristano we have been waiting for.” Thomas Owens, author of Bebop: The Music and Its Players Lennie Tristano is an important contribution to the literature on jazz.” Her illuminating transcriptions of, and commentaries on, Tristano’s solos are also valuable.
Her thorough examination of Tristano’s teaching is particularly important, for no one previously has assembled the thoughts of so many former students. “Eunmi Shim’s book is clearly a labor of love. Brian Priestley, author of Chasin’ the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker and coauthor of The Rough Guide to Jazz This vividly written study is likely to become a standard work.” Her insights into Tristano’s personality are well nuanced, and the focus on his teaching makes a unique contribution to the history of jazz. This vividly written study is likely to become a “In Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music, Shim has provided a comprehensive biographical and analytical account of one of jazz’s most important and most frequently misunderstood figures.
“In Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music, Shim has provided a comprehensive biographical and analytical account of one of jazz’s most important and most frequently misunderstood figures.
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