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Victory
stephan oliva (piano)
françois raulin (piano)
marc ducret (guitares)
laurent dehors (clarinettes)
christophe monniot (saxophones)
bruno chevillon (contrebasse)
paul rogers (contrebasse)
With Sept Variations sur Lennie Tristano pianists Stephan Oliva and François Raulin have fashioned the unlikeliest of tributes to one of the most enigmatic figures in jazz. Tristano’s compositions resemble Charlie Parker’s lines in that they do not function as thematic cells to be developed via improvisation (as in the case of Monk’s compositions) but might rather be thought of as spectacular codifications of Tristano’s style of improvisation. This impression is reinforced by other characteristics: their use of the abstracted chord-sequences of familiar standards (rather than original changes), and Tristano’s avoidance of melodic repetition: over an AABA chord structure he will nonetheless write a throughcomposed melody (ABCD). Tristano’s style – whether encoded in his compositions or exemplified by his improvisation – is notable for its allergy to ornamentation: triplet figures and chromatic sideslips which for other players would be mere gesture or transitional filler are incorporated by Tristano into his lines with an exaggerated deliberation.
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