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Lee Konitz - Ohad Talmor Big Band: Portology
by AAJ Italy Staff
La foto di copertina ritrae una serie di tipiche abitazioni portoghesi, dai colori sfavillanti e variopinti. È una bella metafora per connotare questa nuova collaborazione discografica tra la leggenda vivente del jazz Lee Konitz e il sassofonista ed arrangiatore Ohad Talmor. Una intesa umana ed artistica più che decennale tra i due artisti, che sembra aver dato nuova linfa vitale al magnifico contraltista di Chicago, oggi giovane ottantenne. Una piacevole sorpresa è costituita dall’eccellente cifra artistica della portoghese Orchestra Jazz ...
Continue ReadingLee Konitz-Ohad Talmor Big Band: Portology
by Jerry D'Souza
Lee Konitz and Ohad Talmor first met in 1990, and then toured Europe in 1994 and 1995 with a large ensemble, playing Talmor's “Suite for Lee Konitz. Konitz later performed with Talmor's septet. And now, as part of his eightieth birthday and fifty-year career celebrations, the alto saxophonist has recorded three CDs with composer, arranger and multi-reedist Talmor. In addition to Portology, Omnitone also released New Nonet and Inventions, both in 2006. The Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos--from ...
Continue ReadingLee Konitz' 80th: Charts Missing? Copy Them On Stage While You Spin Jokes
by Fradley Garner
MANNHEIM, Germany: Lee Konitz was on stage here for the last stop on his nonet's European tour in mid-October of 2007 when he discovered that he had left his own music charts at the previous stop, in Porto, Portugal.Panic? Konitz? Not on your life. Especially not at the concert celebrating the pioneer American saxophonist's 80th year of life.While the lead alto parts were hastily written out on the spot, reports Matthias Spindler in the October 15 ...
Continue ReadingLee Konitz-Ohad Talmor Big Band: Portology
by Dan McClenaghan
Portology is the third in a series of CDs featuring a fruitful collaboration between alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and saxophonist/composer/arranger Ohad Talmor. With a fifty year-plus career behind him--most of it involving small group work--it's hard to believe that tPortology is alto saxophonist Lee Konitz' first outing fronting a big band. Not that he hasn't played in the format before, with Stan Kenton early on, and with the not-quite-a-big-band 1949-50 Birth of the Cool (Capitol Records, 1957) sessions with Miles ...
Continue ReadingLee Konitz & The Bert van den Brink Trio: Dialogues
by Francis Lo Kee
Dialogues may be one of saxophonist Lee Konitz's best albums in a discography both prolific and still expanding. The sounds of Bert van den Brink (piano), Hein Van de Geyn (bass) and Hans van Oosterhout (drums) blend perfectly with the leader's alto sax. So attractive is the sound that one hopes this session is not a one-off affair. Starting with a joyous, swinging version of “East of the Sun, Konitz'a improvisation blurs the line between melodic statement ...
Continue ReadingLee Konitz/Martial Solal: European Episode Impressive Rome
by Fred Bouchard
Lee Konitz has been ever the pliable innovator over sixty years since he began (at twenty with Lennie Tristano) beating a cooler, looser bebop path divergent from that of Charlie Parker. Konitz has always enjoyed head-to-head confrontations--he laid down an album of iconoclastic duets in 1967--and keeping that ego-free persona. Fleet meets phlegmatic in this exquisite 1968 meeting during a Konitz tour of Europe with Algerian-born pianist Martial Solal and le plus grand rhythm section in all Europe back then: ...
Continue ReadingLee Konitz / Lee Konitz - Ohad Talmor String Project:: New Nonet / Inventions
by AAJ Italy Staff
Prossimo a compiere gli ottanta anni, Lee Konitz mantiene una verve ed una curiosità musicale davvero rare nel mondo del jazz. A questo si aggiunga una perizia senza tempo di un strumentista unico, che si concede generosamente al confronto con le nuove generazioni di musicisti. Rispettivamente incisi nel 2004 e nel 2005, i due cd in esame faranno la gioia degli innumerevoli fan del contraltista statunitense, ancora una volta magnifico solista dal timbro inconfondibile e dal feeling intenso. Al suo ...
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