Lennie Tristano - Personal Recordings 1946-1970 [2021] (6 x CDs)

SUNDAY JAZZ

LENNIE TRISTANO

Lennie Tristano - Personal Recordings 1946-1970 [2021] (6 x CDs)

Listening to Personal Recordings 1946–1970 feels different from hearing a formal studio set. The recordings arrive unevenly, some close and clear, others distant or fragile, but that inconsistency becomes part of the experience rather than a distraction. Issued in 2021 by Elemental Music, the collection opens a quieter side of Lennie Tristano’s world.

The piano sits at the centre throughout, measured and deliberate. Lines unfold patiently, often circling around an idea before settling into it. Even in looser passages, the structure underneath remains firm. There is very little excess in the playing, no sudden gestures, no dramatic shifts in tone. The phrasing carries the movement.

Because these are personal and archival recordings, the pacing feels less arranged than discovered. Fragments, rehearsals, informal performances, and longer stretches sit side by side without trying to smooth over the gaps between them. That gives the set a different kind of continuity, one built from process rather than presentation.

As the discs move across the years, the changes are subtle. The approach deepens rather than transforms. Similar harmonic ideas return in different forms, each performance leaning slightly away from the last without fully departing from it.

The set feels like being allowed into the middle of an ongoing conversation. The details accumulate quietly, until the recordings begin to reveal not just the pianist, but the way he thought through the instrument over time. (B)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Lennie Tristano - Rhythm 3:21

02 Lennie Tristano - Lennie's Song 4:09

03 Lennie Tristano - Surrender 3:10

04 Lennie Tristano - Stream Line 2:41

05 Lennie Tristano - Day and Night 3:10

06 Lennie Tristano - Rhapsody 3:14

07 Lennie Tristano - Three for Tea 4:40

08 Lennie Tristano - Streamin' 7:08

09 Lennie Tristano - Depend on Me 7:18

10 Lennie Tristano - Just Fine 5:57

11 Lennie Tristano - September Rain 4:19

12 Lennie Tristano - Mystery 2:02

13 Lennie Tristano - Under Your Spell 3:16

14 Lennie Tristano - Cosmology 2:33

15 Lennie Tristano - Restoration 2:30

CD2

01 Lennie Tristano - Spectrum 1:50

02 Lennie Tristano - New Pennies 5:10

03 Lennie Tristano - Lennie's Blues 4:16

04 Lennie Tristano - Dusk 2:35

05 Lennie Tristano - These Foolish Things 3:03

06 Lennie Tristano - Tania's Dance 1:49

07 Lennie Tristano - Call it Love 4:33

08 Lennie Tristano - C Minor Fantasy 1:46

09 Lennie Tristano - No Foolin' 3:31

10 Lennie Tristano - When Your Lover Has Gone 2:29

11 Lennie Tristano - Bud Line 1:36

12 Lennie Tristano - Studio Time Medley 4:39

13 Lennie Tristano - Palo Alto Days 2:50

14 Lennie Tristano - Foolish Again 2:15

15 Lennie Tristano - The Avenue 1:39

16 Lennie Tristano - Sonnet 4:35

17 Lennie Tristano - Swing Time 3:26

18 Lennie Tristano - Love Chords 3:57

CD3

01 Lennie Tristano - Live Free 1:56

02 Lennie Tristano - Sound-Lee 9:39

03 Lennie Tristano - Lennie's Changes 10:26

04 Lennie Tristano - Ice Cream Konitz 9:45

05 Lennie Tristano - Fishin' Around 11:12

06 Lennie Tristano - Band Excerpt 5:15

07 Lennie Tristano - You Go to My Head 4:37

08 Lennie Tristano - Sax of a Kind 5:21

CD4

01 Lennie Tristano - Lennie's Lines 5:34

02 Lennie Tristano - My Melancholy Baby 7:43

03 Lennie Tristano - Oceans Deep 4:02

04 Lennie Tristano - That Trading Feeling 5:47

05 Lennie Tristano - You Go to My Head 6:52

06 Lennie Tristano - London Blues 4:18

07 Lennie Tristano - There Will Never Be Another You 5:09

08 Lennie Tristano - Session Wave 5:56

09 Lennie Tristano - Movin' Along 3:48

10 Lennie Tristano - Trio Lines 7:40

11 Lennie Tristano - Lennie's Place 6:41

CD5

01 Lennie Tristano - Duo Days 4:53

02 Lennie Tristano - Dream Sequence 7:07

03 Lennie Tristano - Melancholy Up 5:06

04 Lennie Tristano - Forever Lines 10:14

05 Lennie Tristano - Friends 4:13

06 Lennie Tristano - You Go to My Head 9:41

07 Lennie Tristano - I Should Care 7:15

08 Lennie Tristano - Lennie's Groove 9:14

CD6

01 Lennie Tristano - Transformations 2:29

02 Lennie Tristano - Dialogue 2:27

03 Lennie Tristano - Digression Expanse 3:09

04 Lennie Tristano - Pinochle Jump 1:58

05 Lennie Tristano - Story 3:09

06 Lennie Tristano - Ensemble Tune 2:14

07 Lennie Tristano - Formation 3:29

08 Lennie Tristano - Sonny's Variation 1:08

09 Lennie Tristano - Swingin' at the Half Note 8:41

10 Lennie Tristano - Lennie's Dream 7:09

11 Lennie Tristano - Smilin' Groove 5:07

12 Lennie Tristano - Mine 0:51

13 Lennie Tristano - Hudson Street 9:03

14 Lennie Tristano - How Deep is the Ocean 10:42

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