Joe Klopus
KC band Crosscurrent takes on Lennie Tristano’s ‘weird bop’
The heady inventions of pianist Lennie Tristano are 65 years old now, but they still sound modern to everyone. Jazz people are still testing themselves on his territory. That’s the reason for the Kansas City band Crosscurrent. The group, playing at Take Five Coffee Bar on Saturday, plays Tristano and Tristano-inspired music most excitingly — and it isn’t quite like anything else on the local scene.
Previous ColumnsStudio sax man Bill Crain launches a quartet
Apr 18, 7:30 PM
Though he was once seen all over town in his own groups, as a sideman and as co-leader of the Trilogy Big Band, now Bill Crain’s gigs are fewer and further between. That makes his quartet’s appearance at the Blue Room tonight a pleasant rarity. But Crain, 60, is still the dedicated jazzman.
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