6 x 9. 336 pgs. 20 musical examples, 7 ganged photos, and 7 tables. (2007) Cloth 978-0-472-11346-0 $32.50T  Available Add to Cart Search this Book's Content About the Book Praise Look Inside Series Jazz Perspectives Subjects American Studies / Biography / Music--Jazz

Lennie Tristano
His Life in Music

Eunmi Shim

Winner: Bronze Prize for the Independent Publisher Book Award for Performing Arts

Winner: 2008 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

The first biography of one of the most influential but unheralded musicians in jazz history

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Praise for the Book

". . . Eunmi Shim has done a splendid job exploring the blind pianist's life work."
---Jazz Notes

"impeccably and exhaustively researched. . . . one wishes that every biography of a jazz musician was researched this well . . . "
---all about jazz

"Comprehensive, objective, and acute in its judgments, this is the biography of Lennie Tristano we have been waiting for."
---Larry Kart, author of Jazz In Search Of Itself

"Eunmi Shim's book is clearly a labor of love. Her thorough examination of Tristano's teaching is particularly important, for no one previously has assembled the thoughts of so many former students. Her illuminating transcriptions of, and commentaries on, Tristano's solos are also valuable. Lennie Tristano is an important contribution to the literature on jazz."
---Tom Owens, author of Bebop: The Music and Its Players

"In Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music, Shim has provided a comprehensive biographical and analytical account of one of jazz's most important and most frequently misunderstood figures. Her insights into Tristano's personality are well nuanced, and the focus on his teaching makes a unique contribution to the history of jazz. This vividly written study is likely to become a standard work."
---Brian Priestley, author of Chasin' The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker and co-author of The Rough Guide to Jazz