Lennie Tristano has been dead since 1978, yet the blind virtuoso pianist remains among the most enigmatic, even paradoxical of jazz innovators. His music was considered cool and intellectual, yet ...

The long-awaited Lennie Tristano box from Mosaic has just been released. Culled from previously unissued material found in the pianist’s personal collection by his daughter, Carol, Lennie Tristano ...

Despite the poor sound quality, Tristano's newly unearthed Personal Recordings from 1946-1970 are fascinating. Free jazz can be rambunctious, but these musicians step and listen carefully. This is ...

Both Lennie Tristano and Herbie Nichols were active on the New York scene in the 1950s. Though worlds apart stylistically, their music demonstrates how the piano accommodates myriad personalities.

On the other hand, The New Tristano showed the world that Tristano not only could swing, but didn’t even need a rhythm section to do it. After the Lennie Tristano overdub flap, this album pointedly ...

Miles Davis is often associated with the late-1940s jazz that came to be known as The Birth of the Cool. But the blind Chicago pianist Lennie Tristano was just as significant a figure in that seismic ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz pianist Lennie Tristano didn't make many commercial recordings or perform so often in nightclubs. But at home in New York, he taught hundreds of students and recorded myriad ...

“As for Lennie Tristano, I’d like to go on record as saying I endorse his work in every particular.” —Charlie Parker, 1953 Born 100 years ago (March 19, 1919), pianist Lennie Tristano has represented ...