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Tristano's Music These three visionary artists offered music to the small public. Byzantine melodci lines, attenuated rhythms, acerbic harmonies. Thelonious Monk, the most admired Jazz composer ofthe postwar ear wrote only single chorus instrumental Melodies while the extended oks of such later players as john coltrane and Ornette Coleman are unrelated to the classical music tradition. Blind virtuoso focused on omplex linear improvisation that utilized polyrhythmic and poly tonal concepts. Using only a relatively few standard songs as a harmonic basis, he composed many striking pieces that sound like spontaneosus solos. Sacrificing the convetional concept o the swinging rhythm section, he inited on a near metronomic , almost faceless bass and drum accompaniment The music of the men who gathered round Lennie Tristano in the mid 1940's (develepemnt of jazz avant garde because 'Intuition' and 'Digression' free jazz performances Tristano -like (free improvisation 'Abstract......

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