By Stuart Mitchner Sometimes I think a novelist made this man up. If you were creating a fictional jazz genius, would you name him Parker or Davis or Rollins or Gillespie? Or would you name him Tristano?” Lennie Tristano (1919-1978) is for real. He was born in Chicago 100 years ago this month, March 19, … Continue reading Lennie Tristano at 100 — Scenario for a Jazz Legend