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Lee Konitz: the Verve Years

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2008-01-07 07:08:19 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...Konitz is a longtime master of melodic improvisation whos played a part in some of jazzs most momentous actsthe Claude Thornhill big band and the Miles Davis Birth of the Cool nonet in the late 1940s, and the Lennie Tristano groups of the 1950s and early 1960s. After working in Stan Kentons orchestra and making some albums for Atlantic,...
 
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Lee Konitz... Art Pepper... Dave Van Ronk... Mance Lipscomb

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2008-02-12 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...Konitz playing 'All of me,' with the late Sonny Dallas on bass and Elvin Jones on drums providing his inimitable polyrhythmic fire. The initial chorus stands as a paradigm for jazz improvisation the tune is hinted at, prodded, approached obliquely simultaneously familiar yet unfamiliar. Dallas provides firm-fingered support and Jones slaps...
 
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The Music of Lennie Tristano/Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh

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2008-05-15 01:08:29 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
...Konitz or Warne before, then you have missed out on hearing some of the most interesting and unique compositions to come out of the Bebop era. This Saturday night at the Cave you will have an opportunity to experience this incredible and unpredictable music While Bird and Dizzy were shaking up the world with their fiery and blustery Be-Bop,...
 
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Music Minus One- Lee Konitz Duets

2008-10-27 02:56:23 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
 
...Konitz duets volume of Music Minus One. This is the first MMO volume that I've bought, though I've seen them in stores for decades. The Konitz volume has some tracks that are just sax duets and a few that are large groups with solo sax (with or without Lee's part This is the bright idea that made Jamey a wealthy man. After practicing with...
 
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Adolphe Sax, Konitz & Readers sound off

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2007-12-23 08:54:00 by David Carlos Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
...Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art is an entire book of interviews wit h the master. In this book Lee talks about his days with Lennie Tristano's group, opening for Bird, working with Miles Davis, his early development as an improviser, his composing, the music business, and much more. This is a great read even if you aren't a huge...
 
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CD: Grace Kelly, Lee Konitz

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2008-10-27 08:04:00 by Rifftides in Rifftides
...Konitz , GracefulLee (Pazz). Alto saxophonists, one fifteen, the other eighty, on the same wavelength, enjoying one another's company. As I wrote near the time this was being recorded, Ms.Kelly is a phenomenon -- not a precociously talented child, but a complete improvising musician. With Konitz, one of the great individualists in jazz, she...
 
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The Tristano/Konitz Project this Saturday @ The Cave

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2008-11-27 23:45:09 by David Valdez in Casa Valdez Studios
...Konitz, Warne Marsh and Billy Bauer Lennie Tristano had a profound influence on jazz, but as sometimes happens, has not gotten a lot of popular recognition. His compositions are clever, intricate and challenging to play even if youre an obvious virtuoso. Lee Konitz followed in Lennies footsteps writing a sizable number of songs but making...
 
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Doug Ramsey: Paul Desmond Part 2

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2008-01-25 08:06:35 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Konitz Quartet (1957) in mind when the guitar decision was made. Alto saxophonists McKusick and Konitz both had similarly seductive horn sounds and used identical configurations in their earlier groupsBarry Galbraith on guitar with McKusick, and Billy Bauer on guitar with Konitz. Interesting to ponder But back to the subject at hand. In Part...
 
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Jimmy Giuffre (1921-2008): Part 2

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2008-04-29 08:19:52 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Konitz/Jimmy Giuffre (1959). This recording was made a month after the Anita O'Day-Jimmy Giuffre session. Despite adventures in Third Stream jazz at the time, Giuffre's arrangement here is straightforward, harmonically teasing out the luster of this nostalgic standard. The album features only reeds backed by a superb rhythm section. The reeds...
 
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Conversations on the Improviser's Art

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2008-03-12 00:39:00 by David Carlos Valdez in