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Lee Konitz Past and Present
by Jeff Stockton
You'd think that by now the influence and relevance of someone present at the Birth of the Cool might be frozen in time, but for Lee Konitz, after sixty years of alto innovation and excellence, reissues, first-time releases and new projects continue to appear at a steady clip. Lee Konitz Peacemeal Milestone ...
Lee Konitz Quintet: Peacemeal
by David Rickert
Starting with his association with Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz proved to be a curious and creative player who over time has pursued some interesting musical ideas quite successfully. A few years after an excellent album of duets, Konitz recorded Peacemeal, a quintet album of hit-or-miss ideas that nevertheless remains an intriguing listen decades after its 1969 ...
Lee Konitz with the Mark Masters Ensemble: One Day With Lee
by John Kelman
At an age when most professionals are off playing golf on a Florida course, many musicians just don’t know the meaning of the word “retire." And that’s a good thing. Take eighty year-old bassist Percy Heath, who released his first album under his own name last year; and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz who, in his mid-seventies, ...
The Constantly Creative Lee Konitz
by R.J. DeLuke
Lee Konitz has been playing improvised music across six decades, with more than 50 albums to his credit. He's a main figure in the music called jazz, known for the distinct sound he gets from his alto sax and his penchant for exploring.He's remembered for his work on Miles' Birth of the Cool session, ...
Toot Sweet
By Lee Konitz
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: I Hear A Rhapsody; To Erlinda; Round About Midnight; Lover Man; Ode; Lovelee
Motion
By Lee Konitz
Label: Verve Records
Released: 1961
Track listing: I Remember You; All Of Me; Foolin' Myself; You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To;I'll Remember April.
Lee Konitz and Michel Petrucciani: Toot Sweet
by Joshua Weiner
Judging from their frequent occurrence in his long discography, duet sessions are among Lee Konitz's favorites. These intimate settings have also encouraged some of his best work; for example, his 1967 album The Lee Konitz Duets (Milestone/OJC), on which he performed with several diverse partners in an astonishing range of styles. The mood is more focussed ...
Lee Konitz: Live-Lee
by Derek Taylor
Few jazz musicians have made as successful and long-running use of the name-based pun as Lee Konitz. Sharing phonetic semblance to an almost ubiquitously applicable suffix certainly helps. In fact, that other famous Lee (Morgan that is) probably came closest in number with these sort of clever play-on-words compositions. Had the trumpeter been blessed with the ...
