Connie Crothers

Connie Crothers was a member of that unfortunately not-so-exclusive club of first-rate jazz improvisers unfairly relegated to the fringes of the jazz public's consciousness. Why she was not more well known and/or critically acclaimed had nothing to do with any lack of skill or originality, for Crothers had both to spare. Perhaps the determining non-musical factor in her neglect was the fact that she was an unrepentant disciple of that most neglected of jazz geniuses, Lennie Tristano. The knotty intricacies of Crothers' hyper-linear style were indeed frequently invested with he...