Lenny Popkin

b. Leonard Popkin, 30 Might 1941, NEW YORK, NY, USA. A good if undervalued tenor saxophonist Popkin collaborated in 1979 with Connie Crothers in making the Lennie Tristano Memorial Concert at New York’s City Hall. Through the 80s and on through in to the 90s he co-led a quartet with Crothers. Despite its manifold characteristics, the fame of the extremely attractive music group did not pass on considerably beyond the eastern seaboard. Made in large component to perpetuate the music of Lennie Tristano, in its previously type the group was curved out by bass participant Cameron Brown, who was simply succeeded by Full Califano, and drummer Carol Tristano, little girl of Lennie. In the Tristano placing, Popkin displays himself to be always a coolly studious participant in the Warne Marsh custom. Elsewhere, he shows a relatively warmer contact on ballads whereon his strategy is seemingly easy. He in addition has caused alto saxophonist Richard Tabnik, another follower from the Tristano series in jazz. Popkin’s name is certainly far less popular than a participant of the quality should get. This comparative and completely undeserved anonymity isn’t helped by the actual fact that a lot of his documented work continues to be designed for New Artists Information, a hard-to-find label founded in the past due 70s by supporters of Tristano.