Results for "Lee Konitz"

Girls in Airports: Girls in Airports

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 30, 2010

The influence of world music has been somewhat rare in Danish jazz, with the notable exception of Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra, which for several years has incorporated Asian music and African folklore into their particular bouncing brand of avant-garde wilderness. The arrival of Girls in Airports signals an altogether different approach to merging different sounds ...

Take Five With Daniel Ian Smith

by AAJ Staff
June 25, 2010

Meet Daniel Ian Smith: Daniel Ian Smith is a saxophonist/flutist and an Associate Professor at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, where he has taught for the past fifteen years. Daniel has had the privilege to perform in Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States in major jazz festivals ...

Mark Feldman: Taking an Eclectic Path

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
June 17, 2010

Violinist Mark Feldman started out in Chicago playing classical music and bar gigs before moving on to the Nashville scene. He emerged in New York's “downtown" circle with the likes of Arcado String Trio, trumpeter Dave Douglas, and composer-saxophonist John Zorn. His expressive, classically tinged technique was also sought for studio work with pop acts and ...

Dan Tepfer - Lee Konitz: Duos with Lee

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 11, 2010

A dare sapidità ad uno dei tanti, forse troppi, duetti discografici di Konitz è lo sviluppo per lo più estemporaneo della session, che investe composizioni e pratica strumentale. Un contesto ancora congeniale per uno dei più sublimi improvvisatori del jazz, dove poter dispensare classe e imprevedibilità. Con un Tepfer impegnato a disegnare il tessuto armonico di ...

Konitz/ Cheek/ Furic Leibovici - Jugendstil II (ESP)

June 8, 2010

How to improve on an already winsome formula? Such was a question facing producer Jim Black and bassist/composer Stephane Furic Leibovici in the wake of their first chamber jazz project for ESP. The answer came in an unexpected and inspired conscription, altoist Lee Konitz. Konitz has been influential party to these types of projects for well ...

Subconscious-Lee

Featuring the music of Lee Konitz
Duration: 6:44
June 7, 2010

Take Five with Meg Okura

by AAJ Staff
June 2, 2010

Meet Meg Okura:Hailed by The Guardian as “improvisational virtuosity," Meg Okura is “equally comfortable playing classical chamber music, rock and everything in between," (The New York Times). She is the founder and the leader of the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, and has won numerous grants and awards as a composer.

Silent Solos: Improvisers Speak

by Jakob Baekgaard
May 30, 2010

Silent Solos: Improvisers Speak Soft cover; 174 pages ISBN: 978-3-00-030557-3 Buddy's Knife 2010 Improvisation, at its best, is about instinct. At its worst, it's an intellectual exercise, cold and theoretical, without an emotional perspective. Fortunately, the beautifully produced Silent Solos: Improvisers Speak avoids the pitfalls of ...

Dave Glasser: Evolution

by Woodrow Wilkins
May 19, 2010

There's nothing wrong with a little old school. Saxophonist Dave Glasser keeps it simple--no flash, no gimmicks. Glasser has spent many years as a sideman, performing with artists including the Clark Terry Quintet, the Count Basie Orchestra, Illinois Jacquet and the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars. He has also recorded several CDs as a leader. A native ...

Take Five With Antoinette Montague

by AAJ Staff
May 17, 2010

Meet Antoinette Montague:Antoinette Montague likes to say she simply sings “people music." Make no mistake about it, she is a jazz singer through and through, but one who pushes the genre's boundaries. On her new recording, Behind the Smile, Montague sings classic jazz standards (new and old), resurrects lovely-but-obscure melodies, blends in blues and ...