Cowboy Troy - Hick Chick

LEWIS (Lewis) John Aron (b. 3 V 1920, La Grange, pc. Illinois) - Amer. jazz pianist and black composer. origin. In childhood, he studied playing the php., Then studied music-theoretical. items and game on fp. in special. musesschool (1947-48) and the Manhattan music. school in New York (until 1953). Since 1942 he has been performing as a jazz pianist. He participated in the first ensembles of “b-bop” (with C. Parker), was the arranger and pianist in the jazz orchestras of D. Gillespie (wrote the first works for him - toccata for trumpet and orchestra, a play for 2 double basses, etc.), M Davis (the so-called cool jazz). In 1952 he created the "Modern Jazz Quartet" (fp., Vibraphone, double bass, drums) - the best Amer. a band playing in the style of "cool jazz", and one of the best chamber jazz ensembles; spoke with him (until 1974) on the plural. festivals. The quartet of L. is characterized by a calm, devoid of external, “hot” effects manner of performance, the subordination of improvisations of musicians to a single composition. design, the use of polyphony. He toured with him in a number of countries, including in Australia. In the repertoire of the quartet ch. arr. Op.L., incl. “Django”, “Vendome”, “Fontess”, “Rondo”. The author of music for several. the movies. L. gives lectures in several. Jazz colleges, is the director of a number of international. jazz festivals decomp. commissions.