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Lee Konitz, à propos de Tristano et du jazz cool « Cool jazz always had a negative connotation, so that was a bit of a problem. It was compared to hot jazz, and seemed to lack something. These labels, I think, separated the white and the black. As far as I'm concerned, Lennie Tristano's music was the manifestation of cool jazz. It was not Miles' nonet - that was cool chamber music, a kind of arranger's workshop. Of course, there were great soloists on that record, but they were incidental to the arrangements. But for improvised... [Lire la suite]