The Tristano School of Bebop was one of the three mainstreams of the Cool Jazz movement in the late forties and early fifties. (The other ones were West Coast Jazz and the group around Miles Davis and Gil Evans including other former bop musicians like the MJQ.) The "Tristano School"was a group of musicians led by pianist Lennie Tristano and including Lee Konitz (as), Warne Marsh (ts), Billy Bauer (g), Sal Mosca (p) and Arnold Fishkin (b). This group existed from 1946, when Tristano moved to New York. In this session we see and hear Lee Konitz (as), Warne Marsch (ts), but in this clip is pianist Billy Taylor. Mundell Lowe on guitar and Ed Thigpen on drums. An instrument I have never seen in the jazz context is the mellophone, here being played by Don Elliot.
I got a yen to hear a mellophone all of a sudden. Not something that's ever happened before. Maybe it was all that talk about being kew-el I wanted people to hear what that really sounded like. Lee Konitz was one of those we lost to Covid-19 last year.
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