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November 18, 1978, New York City, New York (aged 59) Lennie Tristano (born March 19, 1919, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died November 18, 1978, New York City, New York) was an American jazz pianist, a major figure of cool jazz and an influential teacher. Tristano, who became totally blind as a child, began playing piano in taverns at age 12.
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Apr 28, 2022 · Lennie Tristano: The Complete Look Up and Live. Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey March 19, 2014. Lennie Tristano was born in Chicago on this day in 1919. At birth, influenza ruined his vision.By his 10th birthday he was blind. Formally trained at a music conservatory, he played piano and, as a 12-year-old clarinetist, led atraditional band.
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Biography. Leonard Joseph (Lennie) Tristano was born on March 19, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois and passed away on November 18, 1978 in New York City at the age of 59. Lennie was born with weak sight, but became completely blind by age ten. Both of his parents emigrated from Italy, and his mother, a pianist and opera singer, taught him music.
Lennie Tristano was one of the most radical voices in the jazz of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Called "the mystery man of jazz, a blind pianist with a reputation as a pedagogue who rarely performed in public during the last 20 years of his career," by Rolling Stone 's Robert Palmer, Tristano was responsible for a number of groundbreaking ...
Watch on. Lennie Tristano‘s influence as a pianist and jazz teacher is perhaps more felt than known, an undercurrent detected at times in the mid-1960s recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, or ...
He first studied music with his mother, an avocational pianist and opera singer. From 1928-38, he attended a school for the blind in Chicago, where he learned music theory and developed proficiency on several wind instruments. Later, he attended Chicago’s American Conservatory of Music, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in 1943.
This chapter of Shim’s biography of Lennie Tristano deals with the pianist’s arrival in New York and his critical and professional reception thereafter. Tristano’s music startled some, confused others, and inspired many more, including protegés Billy Bauer, Lee Konitz, and Warne Marsh.
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