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Jazzspeak: Lee Konitz's Verbal History of the Nonet – 9:35 Bonus track on CD reissue; Personnel Lee ... Kenny Washington – drums; Sy Johnson – arranger; References. This page was last edited on 29 November 2023, at 15:31 (UTC). Tex ...
One of the top jazz drummers of the past 40 years, Kenny Washington is also a noted jazz historian and educator who has played all styles of jazz. In 1976, at the age of 17, Kenny played his first major gig with alto saxophonist, Lee Konitz.
Jazz Nocturne is an album by saxophonist Lee Konitz's Quartet, recorded in 1992 for the Japanese Venus label and released in the US on the Evidence label.
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- Motion
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- Lee Konitz Nonet
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Konitz was born in Chicago in 1927 to Jewish immigrant parents: his mother was Russian, his father from Austria. After hearing big band jazz and swing on the radio, he began learning the saxophoneand clarinet as a child, playing his first professional gigs in the mid-1940s whilst still a teenager. By the age of 20 he was a member of Claude Thornhil...
Lennie Tristano was famously protective of his disciples, preferring them to play with other students of his method and discouraging them from any sort of broad-minded or commercial approach to music. Konitz was certainly not lacking in artistic integrity, but he was keen to play with lots of different musicians (in addition to having a family to s...
Tristano’s other star pupil was the saxophonist Warne Marsh. Marsh’s dark, snaking tenor sound complemented Konitz’s alto perfectly, and the pair would record together a number of times over the years. This album is a classic piece of mid-’50s Cool jazz, the relaxed style that was marketed as an alternative to the more fiery bebop around this time....
In 1959 Tristano had a regular gig at the Half Note in New York, but would take regular evenings off playing to teach. His replacement on this occasion was Bill Evans, who approximately one month later would take the piano chair for the recording of Miles Davis’ seminal Kind of Blue. Konitz is joined on the frontline by Marsh again. Both saxophonis...
Jimmy Giuffre was a saxophonist, clarinettist, composer and arranger who was associated with the Third Stream movement, a kind of synthesis of classical music and jazz. He provides a set of excellent arrangements for this enjoyable outing, which features five saxophones and rhythm section. Konitz is joined in the sax section by Hal McKusick on seco...
1961’s Motionis perhaps the ultimate document of Konitz’s musical philosophy. On a selection of five Songbook standards he declines to even state the melody at the start of each tune, instead diving straight into inspired off-the-cuff creation. The personnel that makes up the stripped back trio is a little unexpected. Bassist Sonny Dallas was anoth...
This fascinating 1967 record sees Konitz playing alto and tenor in duo settingswith a fascinatingly diverse selection of partners. He tackles the ballad “You Don’t Know What Love Is” with tenor great Joe Henderson and embraces free jazz in his meetings with guitarist Jim Hall and veteran Ellington violinist Ray Nance. The opening “Struttin’ with So...
This 1974 album on the Danish label Steeplechase is a tribute to the great American songsmith Cole Porter. It places the saxophonist in a conversational duo setting with the virtuosic double bassist Red Mitchell, whose style is soloistic and highly melodic. The pair combine ingeniously, interpreting 12 timeless Porter songs in 12 different keys. Mi...
In the 1970s Konitz returned to a medium-sized ensemble format that was similar in size to the bands used on previous albums like Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool and his own Meets Jimmy Giuffre. The nine-piece band that he led during this period played around New York and toured to Europe, where he felt audiences were particularly receptive to his m...
As he got older, Konitz gradually adopted a simpler style, focusing on truly improvising from note to note, largely preferring slower tempos to enable him to achieve this, and sometimes opting to scat sing rather than solo on the saxophone. He accepted invitations to play in all manner of musical situations but, essentially, he was at his most cont...
16. Feb. 2017 · Throughout his nearly 70-year career, Konitz himself has been highly influential in the way of playing of several musicians. Frescalalto marks his debut on Impulse Records and features the acclaimed pianist Kenny Barron, and a tight bass-drums engine composed of Peter Washington and Kenny Washington (no family ties, but natural ...
15. Jan. 2016 · Lee Konitz Nonet - Giant Steps - YouTube. rujazz. 21.6K subscribers. Subscribed. 129. 8.4K views 8 years ago. Lee Konitz (as), Burt Collins (tp, flh, piccolo), John Eckert (flh), Jimmy...
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The Lee Konitz Nonet: Roulette: 1977: 1976: The Nonet: Burt Collins, John Eckert, Jimmy Knepper, Sam Burtis, Kenny Berger, Andy Laverne, Rufus Reid, Billy Hart, 13. und 18. Oktober 1976. Pyramid: Improvising Artists Inc. 1977: 1977: Trioalbum von Konitz, Bill Connors und Paul Bley. Electric Lady Studios, New York, 11. Juni 1977. Lee ...
