Lennie Tristano [Collectables] (2004)

About this title: Lennie Tristano's Atlantic debut was a controversial album at the time of its release. Though Tristano was regarded as a stellar and innovative bebop pianist, the first four tunes on this set shocked the jazz world at the time of their release. The reason was that on the four original tunes that open the set -- "Line Up," "Requiem," "Turkish Mambo" and "East Thirty-Second" -- Tristano actually overdubbed piano lines, and sped the tape up and down for effect. While the effect is quite listenable and only jarring in the most splendid sense of the word because of the sharp, angular arpeggios and ... read more

Tracks:

1. Line Up [Tristano]
2. Requiem [Tristano]
3. Turkish Mambo [Tristano]
4. East Thirty-Second [Tristano]
5. These Foolish Things [Link/Strachey/Marve]
6. You Go to My Head [Coots]
7. If I Had You [Shapiro/Campbell/Co]
8. Ghost of a Chance [Crosby/Washington]
9. All the Things You Are [Kern/Hammerstein]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.