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Ben Monder: Le Monde du Monder
by Phil DiPietro
With a fittingly well-documented career, boasting a range of stunning appearances on over 50 recordings, including 14 since the year 2000, Ben Monder has solidified his position as one of the finest players of his generation. A chordal and textural master, unafraid to thoroughly explore advanced harmonic concepts, Ben's appearance on a sideman date ...
Play French Impressionist Music from the 20th Century
By Lee Konitz
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Les Bandar
Parallels
By Lee Konitz
Label: Chesky Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: How Deep is the Ocean; For Hans; Skylark; LT; 317 East 32nd; Palo Alto; Eyes; Subconscious Lee
Lee Konitz: Parallels
by AAJ Staff
Perhaps there are benefits to not being signed to a single label, especially when the artist is as well-known and recordable and in-demand as Lee Konitz. While, say, a Jackie McLean was going almost unrecorded until he signed with Blue Note and a Benny Golson was in the same situation until Arkadia started releasing a stream ...
Lee Konitz: Parallels
by AAJ Staff
Ever in the present, actively improvising today as he did in the ‘50s, Lee Konitz has produced a trenchant album for the now with, as the title suggests, parallels to the past. Two distinct sets comprise this album. The first four songs see Konitz in a quartet arrangement. Featured guest, Mark Turner, joins on the last ...
Lee Konitz and the Axis String Quartet: Play French Impressionist Music from the 20th Century
by Jack Bowers
This homage to 20th–century French Impressionist composers by alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and the Axis String Quartet might best be described as a sometimes interesting but more often overly ambitious venture. Konitz is an undeniably marvelous player (although not especially well–recorded here) and the quartet is clearly an accomplished unit, but the music itself is on ...
Lee Konitz: Some New Stuff
by Andrew Lindstrom
One of the most exciting and unique aspects of “saxophonitz" Lee Konitz's playing and writing is his intense respect for both the intuitive nature of the improvisational process as well as the practical nuts and bolts of making music with others. This is a characteristic of many of pianist/pedagogue Lennie Tristano's pupils to a certain extent, ...
