Word: tristano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...degree in music, professors patronized him because he eked out his income playing in nightclubs. In the Navy he almost lost his right index finger when a gun breech slammed shut on it. In New York, where he studied classics at Juilliard and jazz with Teddy Wilson and Lennie Tristano, he and his wife existed for seven jobless months on spaghetti-even after Williams had won on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts by banging out a symphonic arrangement of I Got Rhythm...
...increasing popularity of "funky" or "soul" jazz among both musicians and fans is the most important jazz trend of recent years. In part, it is a reaction against the emotional detachment, intellectualism and classical orientation of men like Lennie Tristano and John Lewis. Its essence, though, is a rededication to the roots of jazz: the blues, Negro church music, and a strong beat...
...Miles Davis. A New Jersey boy, Evans studied classical piano as a youngster, at twelve filled in one evening with a local dance band and was hooked on jazz. He played his way through Southeastern Louisiana College, there first heard the records of Saxophonist Lee Konitz and the Lennie Tristano school: "I felt for the first time as if I were hearing jazz played that hadn't been learned by osmosis; they were making an effort to build something...