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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.
Lee Konitz - Ohad Talmor String Project: Inventions
by Glenn Astarita
Celebrated alto saxophonist Lee Konitz works with multi-reedman Ohad Talmor and a string section, but not a conventional rhythm section, on this studio set. Inventions is not particularly groundbreaking within the realm of classical-jazz music, yet it's alluring and musically stimulating nonetheless, featuring mid-tempo, string-based bop movements and fluid soloing atop unison choruses or skewed frameworks. ...
Lee Konitz: New Nonet
by Andrey Henkin
Lee Konitz New Nonet OmniTone 2006 The latter part of the '70s found alto saxophonist Lee Konitz leading a nonet (after a couple of unofficial and partial attempts in 1959 and 1967). The group made albums in 1976 (Roulette), 1977 (Chiaroscuro) and 1979 (SteepleChase and Soul Note). In 2003, a ...
Lee Konitz / Martial Solal: European Episode / Impressive Rome
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per la gioia dei numerosi appassionati di Lee Konitz, viene pubblicata per la prima volta in CD questa duplice incisione romana del 1968, in cui l’altosassofonista di Chicago è alla testa di un quartetto davvero stellare. Lo compongono Martial Solal al pianoforte, Henry Texier al contrabbasso e Daniel Humair alla batteria. Come ben sanno i jazzofili ...
Cool Konitz
by Russ Musto
Lee Konitz is cool. He was cool even before it was cool to be cool and he was cool even when it wasn't cool to be cool. And he's still cool. Since his earliest days performing Gil Evans' innovative arrangements with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra in 1947, the alto saxophonist has played with a distinctive sound ...
Peacemeal
By Lee Konitz
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Thumb Under (no. 90 from Mikrokosmos by Bela Bartok) 2. Lester Leaps In 3. Village Joke (no. 130 from Mikrokosmos) 4. Something To Sing 5. Peacemeal 6. Body and Soul 7. Peasant Dance (no. 128 from Mikrokosmos) 8. Fourth Dimension 9. Second Thoughts 10. Subconscious-Lee 11. Lester Leaps In (alt. take) 12. Body and Soul (alt. take) 13. Subconscious-Lee (alt. take).
More Live-Lee
By Lee Konitz
Label: Blue Note
Released: 2004
Track listing: Invitation/ Body and Soul/ Thingin'/ You Stepped Out of a
Dream/ Nothin'/ I Can't Get Started/ Lennie's Pennies/ How Deep Is the
Ocean?/ You Go to My Head/ Bending Broadly/ Just Friends
Lee Konitz with Alan Broadbent: More Live-Lee
by AAJ Staff
Tristano disciples Lee Konitz and Alan Broadbent paired together back in 2000 at the Jazz Bakery for two nights of improvisational wizardry. Their first release, Live-Lee, was of such high quality that the remaining tracks have been assembled on the encore release. If anyone knows anything about these two souls, there is no such thing as ...
