Album entitled John Lewis Piano by pianist and composer John Lewis. The record is recorded in 1957 and released on the Atlantic label
Pianist and composer John Lewis was along with Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron and Lennie Tristano the initiator of cool jazz
In 1946, the American pianist with vibraphonist Milt Jackson, drummer Kenny Clarke and bassist Ray Brown formed a group that served as the rhythm section of Dizzy Gillespie‘s Big Band. The group in 1952 took the name Modern Jazz Quartet with Percy Heath on double bass replacing Ray Brown. Three years later Conny Kay replaced Kenny Clarke on drums. With this line up, the Modern Jazz Quartet will become one of the longest-running ensembles in jazz history
In the late 1940s John Lewis took part in Miles Davis’ Nonetto, along with Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, Gunther Shuller, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, among others, for the recording of the album Birth of The Cool
John Lewis was, along with cornrist and composer Gunther Shuller, one of the main proponents of the Third Stream current, in which elements of the European classical school, such as the fugue, are combined with the jazz idiom that is more closely aligned with its traditional form and less close to the bebop idiom
The entire material recorded on the analog medium shared by Michele Zottis was digitized and restored by sound engineers at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome under the supervision of Paolo Marra, curator of the Archives of Jazz in Rome
