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Crosscurrent from 1949 by Lennie Tristano (Sextet) contains two tracks that are the first purely improvised work in recorded jazz. Prior to this, it was Charlie Parker who had raised eyebrows with his personalized, stylistic "free" solo reading on the standard "Cherokee," a song he first learned a lot by and which he had been riffing with for years and years. On Crosscurrent (also titled Intuition on some releases), Lennie (who was also playing with Parker towards his end) sketches lines on the piano as the often overlooked Warne Marsh blows some inspired figures and Arnold Fishkin doodles on the guitar. Harold Granowsky and Billy Bauer provide the rhythm.
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