Cologne ยป Calendar ยป Tristano Unchained | Live Recording at Loft
Tristano Unchained | Live Recording at Loft
When
Fri, October 11, 2024
20:00
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Musicians
Julian Bossert
saxophoneStefan Karl Schmid
saxophone, tenorThomas Rueckert
pianoCalvin Lennig
bass, acousticFabian Arends
drumsAbout
tickets:
regular: 14,- โฌuro
students, disabled persons: 7,- โฌuro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
When cineastes hear the band name Tristano Unchained, they might think of Quentin Tarantinoโs Django Unchained, but jazz connoisseurs will naturally think of Lennie Tristano. The blind pianist and composer gave bebop a new twist at the end of the 1940s when he interwove his experience of classical music, the polytonality of modernism and the counterpoint of late baroque with the swinging blue notes of African-American jazz. In this way, Tristano created music with an enormous awareness of form and at the same time an airy, harmonically open quality. Many people were interested in this at the time who were later referred to as โcool jazzersโ, such as saxophonists Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh. And saxophonist Julian Bossert is still fascinated by it in the here and now. That is why he has named his band โTristano Unchainedโ....