clifford_thornton Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 According to London Jazz News, the great bassist, recording engineer, and visual artist Peter Ind passed yesterday at 93. He must've been one of the last alive to have worked with Lennie Tristano. https://londonjazznews.com/2021/08/21/rip-peter-ind-1928-2021/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Yeah, RIP. + hoping that the Wave catalogue is in good hands going fortn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Very sad news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quasimado Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Sorry to hear that. Great bassist, interesting character. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Very sad. But is it possible he had been sick for years, I saw a later photograf of him and his face looked like if he had a stroke, partially paralized.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Very sorry to hear this, though pleased he had such a long life. I knew Peter well in the 1960s when he was teaching on the UK's first jazz course at Leeds College of Music. It was through Peter that I got to meet Lennie Tristano - at the Harrogate Arts Festival in 1968. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 Sorry to hear this. Met him once, in the 1970s, when he was touring with Lee Konitz and Jimmy Raney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted August 22, 2021 Report Share Posted August 22, 2021 One of my favorite photos: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 Sad news indeed. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 I have Ind's Wave album of solo walking bass performances. Not at all boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 Sad news, RIP. Like the poet Michael Horowitz (who also passed away very recently) he seemed ageless. I enjoyed his book on Lennie Tristano and will dig it out for another read. Never got to his Bass Clef Club but it sounds like a most worthy endeavour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romualdo Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 RIP Peter - what an amazing life he friended me on facebook a few years back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 On 8/22/2021 at 2:42 AM, Gheorghe said: Very sad. But is it possible he had been sick for years, I saw a later photograf of him and his face looked like if he had a stroke, partially paralized.. yeah, I think you are right but he still played and worked his ass off! I suppose Dick Scott/Tox Drohar is still with us, as far as surviving Tristano-ites go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 In the mid-70's my wife and I were visiting London. Thought it would interesting to go the Peter Ind's - Bass Clef club to hear some music. Had a hell of a time finding our way there via the Underground. Eventually got there and did get to hear some nice music. Though, I don't actually recall who was performing that evening so very long ago. Doubt if it was anything really special, or I would have remembered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 Very sad to hear. He had a fantastic career, and was quite a character. He played bass on Jimmy Raney's "Suite For Guitar Quintet", and with Warne Marsh, Konitz, Tristano, and even wrote a very good book on Tristano -"Jazz Visions of Lenny Tristano", which I enjoyed very much. He operated his own club The Bass Clef, and produced some great albums in his own loft. RIP, Mr. Ind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted August 24, 2021 Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 13 hours ago, clifford_thornton said: yeah, I think you are right but he still played and worked his ass off! I suppose Dick Scott/Tox Drohar is still with us, as far as surviving Tristano-ites go. I'm pleased to say that British guitarist Dave Cliff, who you could call a third generation Tristano-ite, is still with us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cliff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 ah yes, know him from Wave LPs obviously. Richard Tabnik would be in that generation as well, or maybe a shade younger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 24, 2021 Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 Is Lennie Popkin still alvei? Carol Tristano? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 Lenny Popkin is still with us. Carol too, as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 24, 2021 Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 Jimmy Halperin, also, but hasn't he moved away somewhat from the "Tristano" approach? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 yes, Halperin -- those NoBusiness CDs are excellent, albeit rather free. I suppose anyone who studied with Connie Crothers is tangentially part of the larger school, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 24, 2021 Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 I've always been tempted to think that "free" playing was the logical end-result of Tristano-ism (as I do with George Russel's LCC), but usually don't yield to that temptation. There are those who will push back against that, and they have some valid arguments. All these people we're talking about, they all hung with Crothers while she was living with Tristano, correct? I know she was in kind of a caretaker role at the end, but before that, was he engaged with those players to any degree? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2021 Yes, I think you are right -- not sure about before that with respect to the saxophonists we're talking about. I agree with you to an extent about Free & Tristano, bu there are so many ways to play free that don't intersect with him & his ideas directly, it becomes a bit of an analytical shell game. Musica Elettronica Viva had a piece called "Chinese Food" but it wasn't necessarily take-out from Confucius, y'know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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