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Name: Lennie Tristano
| Nee: |
Leonard Joseph Tristano |
| Born: |
19 Mar 1919 |
| Died: |
18 Nov 1978 |
| Origin: |
Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Instruments: |
Piano |
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Lennie Tristano was a jazz pianist and composer. He is sometimes regarded as an unduly overlooked figure in jazz history.
Lennie Tristano was blind from infancy. He studied piano and music theory from pre-teen years, first under his mother's guidance, (she was an occasional opera singer),and later formally.
His interest in jazz inspired a move to New York City in 1946. Lennie Tristano's advanced grasp of harmony fit with the prevailing bebop movement, and he earned a reputation as a gifted pianist, perfoming and recording with bebop's preeminent figures, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. |
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