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Lee 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 ...
Lover Man
Featuring the music of Lee Konitz
Duration: 5:52
Lee 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 ...
Lee 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 ...
Lee 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 ...
Lee Konitz / Gary Versace: Organic-Lee
by Budd Kopman
Lee Konitz, born in 1927, has been creating his own distinctive sound and playing in many different situations for about twice as many years as Gary Versace is old. The age gap, however, did not prove an obstacle to the production of this outstanding record, which pairs the two players on alto and Hammond B-3, respectively. ...
Lee Konitz: New Nonet
By Lee Konitz
Label: OmniTone
Released: 2006
Track listing: ChromaticLee Suite; Outward; Big Easy; West Coast; Funky; Ominous; Colorful; Springin';
Ohad; Warmer in Heaven; Wallz; Rubato.
European Episode / Impressive Rome
By Lee Konitz
Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: CD 1 - 01. Collage On Standards- 16:32; 02. Duet For Saxophone and Drum and Piano - 6:03; 03. Anthropology (Parker/Gillespie)- 7:41;
04. Lover Man (Ramirez/Davis)- 6:25; 05 Roman Blues - 8:28
CD 2- 01. Anthropology (Parker/Gillespie)- 7:01; 02. Impressive Rome- 5:26; 03. Lover Man ((Ramirez/Davis) - 6:17; 04. Stella
By Starlight (Washington/Young) -7:01; 05. Roman Blues- 9:16
Inventions
By Lee Konitz
Label: OmniTone
Released: 2006
Track listing: Qu'est-ce que C'est?; Pretty Peace; Moon; Lied im Herzen; General Cluster; Chunks; FeeBeMe; Alone in Cologne; Struttin with Some Barbeque.
