Johnaye Kendrick is set to stream a performance with her quartet on Friday.
(Photo: Courtesy of Artist)Oct 19, 2020 8:58 AM
As performers look to replace income from lost gigs and regain a sense of community amid the coronavirus pandemic, a number of musicians are using online streaming services to…
Lennie Tristano (1919-1978)
(Photo: William P. Gottlieb/Library Of Congress)Sep 25, 2020 12:43 PM
The efforts of such groups as the George Shearing quintet and the Bird-with-strings combo to wean the public to bop by offering it in a commercialized form is producing the opposite effect, according to pianist Lennie Tristano. Lennie, one of jazz’s most adamant iconoclasts, says such efforts are killing off the potential jazz audience and lousing up the musicians involved.
“If you give watered-down bop to the public,” he says, “they’d rather hear that than the real thing. Has George Shearing helped jazz by making his bop a filling inside a…
