Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz
Born: Oct 13, 1927 in Chicago, IL
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Genre: Jazz
Styles: Cool, Post-Bop, Modern Creative
Biography: One of the most individual of all altoists (and one of the few in the 1950s who did not sound like a cousin of Charlie Parker), the cool-toned Lee Konitz has always had a strong musical curiosity that has led him to consistently take chances and stretch himself, usually quite successfully. Early on he ...Read full biography
The Lee Konitz Duets
Released: 1967
Label: Fantasy Inc.
Critics' Rating:
This CD brings back one of altoist Lee Konitz's greatest sessions. In 1967 he recorded a series of very diverse duets, all of which succeed on their own terms. Konitz is matched with valve trombonist Marshall ...Read full review
Subconscious-Lee [Prestige]
Released: 1949
Label: Prestige/OJC
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A debut for both Lee Konitz and the Prestige label, Subconscious-Lee brings together many of the students who came through Lennie Tristano's idiosyncratic "school" of jazz during the immediate postwar ...Read full review
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