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The Rocco John Group: Devotion
by Woodrow Wilkins
Trumpet and sax pairings often make for some of the most enjoyable jazz. The Rocco John Group, venturing back into the sounds of the 1960s and '70s, keep that thought alive. Saxophonist Rocco John Iacovone studied with Lee Konitz and has worked with Sam Rivers. The group has performed together 11 years. The other ...
Lee Konitz & Minsarah: Deep Lee
by Wilbur MacKenzie
Saxophonist Lee Konitz possesses a somewhat austere take on jazz improvisation and who has spent well over half a century finding new ways to express his unique viewpoint. Deep Lee finds him in a quartet with three musicians working together under the name Minsarah. Featuring German pianist Florian Weber, Israeli-born drummer Ziv Ravitz and American bassist ...
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings
by Clifford Allen
Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...
Contemporary Jazz in Denmark: Different Sounds, Different Scenes
by Jakob Baekgaard
There's an often-quoted phrase by Shakespeare saying that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark" but when it comes to jazz, the environment of the country is indeed very fertile, and at this point, the many sounds of Danish jazz are reaching across the borders and finding new listeners everywhere in the world. The homogeneity ...
Portology
By Lee Konitz
Label: OmniTone
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Sound Lee; 02. June ’05; 03. A New Balad; 04. Ornetty; 05. September 11th; 06. Ornetty (part2); 07. ‘Dante; 08. To Be Or Not To; 09. Fragmente; 10. Tempo di Lee; 11. Moderato; 12. Relative Major.
Tutte le composizioni sono di Lee Konitz/Olhad Talmor.
Live At The Half Note
By Lee Konitz
Label: Verve Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Palo Alto; How About You?; My Melancholy Baby; Scrapple From The Apple; You Stepped Out Of A Dream; 317 E 32nd; April; It's You Or No One; Just Friends; Baby, Baby All The Time; Lennie-Bird; Subconscious-Lee;
I Grandi Concerti - The Brass Group Palermo - Volume 1
By Lee Konitz
Label:
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Subconscious-Lee (L.Konitz); 02. Stepping Stone (W.Shaw); 03. All The Things You Are (Kern/Hammerstein); 04. Will You Still Be Mine? (Adair/Dennis); 05. Black Narcissus (J.Henderson); 06. Rhythm-A-Ning (T.Monk); 07. I'll Remember April (Raye/De Paul/Johnston).
Fresh Sound-New Talent
by Laurel Gross
Fresh Sound-New Talent owner and founder Jordi Pujol lives in Barcelona where his label is based but he's been up all night following the US Presidential election. Speaking from his native Spain the “morning after," he expresses the hope that the selection of President Elect Barack Obama might bode well not only for America but Europe ...
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art
by Nic Jones
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art Andy Hamilton Paperback; 312 pages ISBN: 0472032178 University of Michigan Press 2007 Saxophonist Lee Konitz has long been known for the singularity of his musical approach. Andy Hamilton's book accordingly serves Konitz a whole lot better than ...
