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Lee 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 ...
Lee 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 ...
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. ...
Organic-Lee
By Lee Konitz
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Old Folks; How Long Has This Been Going On; A-Blues; In Your Own Sweet Way; Giant Steps; A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing; Sweet And Lovely; Come Sunday; My Old Flame.
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.
