Crosscurrents | |
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Studio album by | |
Released | 1972 |
Recorded | March 4, 14, April 23, May 16, August 24, November 2, 1949 |
Genre | Jazz |
Label | Capitol (M-11060) |
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AllMusic | [1] |
Crosscurrents is an album by jazz pianist Lennie Tristano. The sides were recorded in 1949 and the album released by Capitol in 1972.[2] The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013.[3]
The first seven tracks are recordings of Tristano's sextet, containing Warne Marsh (tenor sax), Lee Konitz (alto sax), Billy Bauer (guitar), Arnold Fishkin (bass), and Harold Granowsky or Denzil Best (drums; separately). They include "the earliest examples of free improvisation in jazz: 'Intuition' and 'Digression'".[1] It was reissued by Capitol as part of the Intuition 1996 CD re-issue, in combination with Warne Marsh's Jazz of Two Cities.[4]