Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz created a momentous new form of Modern jazz together, one that still stuns, mesmerizes and inspires with boldness, subtlety, brilliance and fantastic substance today.

When Konitz passed away at 92, having lived over 70 years in New York City, the New Yorker magazine and the New York Times main jazz scribe made no mention sadly revealing elementary ignorance and apathy for artistic diversity in jazz.

- Michael Robinson Longhi, December 2022, Maui, Hawaii

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Michael Robinson Longhi is a Los Angeles-based composer, pianist, and musicologist. His over 200 albums include over 150 albums for meruvina and over 50 albums of piano improvisations. He has performed and lectured at various American churches, universities, colleges, NPR, Pacifica, college, and community radio stations, high schools, elementary schools and community centers including all over the world online.