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Lee Konitz: Parallels

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2001

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 ...

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Lee Konitz: Parallels

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2001

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 ...

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Lee Konitz and the Axis String Quartet: Play French Impressionist Music from the 20th Century

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 2001

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 ...

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Lee Konitz: Some New Stuff

Read "Some New Stuff" reviewed by Andrew Lindstrom

by Andrew Lindstrom
February 1, 2001

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, ...

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Lee Konitz: Some New Stuff

Read "Some New Stuff" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 1, 2001

Recently, I’ve rediscovered the music of Lee Konitz. Actually never lost, I just kind of never favored his sound. Till now. Maybe he has mellowed, or I’ve aged, but to my ears he has set aside attitude to favor beauty. Konitz, a Lennie Tristano disciple, has for years been undeservedly labeled with a cool-school moniker. His ...

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