Lennie Tristano, piano solo e em trio. Gravações do final dos anos 40, princípios de 50. Incluem material saído em LP sob o título Descent into the Maelstrom. Abstraction & Improvisation (Five Four Records). Everybody in this country is very neurotic now. They're afraid to experience an intense emotion, the kind of emotion, for instance, that's brought on by good jazz. There's more vitality in jazz than in any other art form today. Vitality arises from an emotion that is free. - Lennie Tristano, 1950