Lee Konitz

   
Artist: Lee Konitz

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Sound Of Surprise

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 Three Guys

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9

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One of the most individual of all altoists (and nonpareil of the few in the 1950s world Health Organization did non sound like a full cousin of Charlie Parker), the cool-toned Lee Konitz has e'er had a hard musical curiosity that has lED him to consistently accept chances and stretch himself, unremarkably quite successfully. Early on he studied clarinet, switched to alto, and played with Jerry Wald. Konitz gained some attention for his solos with Claude Thornhill's Orchestra (1947). He began perusal with Lennie Tristano, world Health Organization had a grown influence on his creation and approach to improvising. Konitz was with Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool Nonet during their one gig and their Capitol recordings (1948-1950) and recorded with Lennie Tristano's groundbreaking sextette (1949), including the first-class honours degree two give up improvisations ever so documented. Konitz blended selfsame well with Warne Marsh's tenor (their unisons on "Howler" ar marvellous) and would have several reunions with both Tristano and Marsh through the days, but he was too interested in finding his have way; by the early '50s he started breakage away from the Tristano school. Konitz toured Scandinavia (1951), where his cool sound was influential, and he equip in surprisingly well with Stan Kenton's Orchestra (1952-1954), organism featured on many charts by Bill Holman and Bill Russo. Konitz was primarily a loss leader from that point on. He about retired from medicine in the early '60s but re-emerged a few age later on. His recordings cause ranged from cool boP to thoughtful give up improvisations, and his Milestone set of Duets (1967) is a graeco-Roman. In the late '70s Konitz light-emitting diode a celebrated nonet and in 1992 he won the honored Jazzpar Prize. He unbroken a busy release docket end-to-end the '90s and spattered in the world of graeco-Roman with 2000's French Impressionist Music from the Turn of the Twentieth Century. The Mark Masters Ensemble linked him for 2004's One Day with Lee. And in 2007 he recorded Portology with the Ohad Talmor Big Band. He has recorded on soprano and strain simply has for the most part stuck to his distinctive alto.Konitz has lED systematically stimulating sessions for many labels, including Prestige, Dragon, Pacific Jazz, Vogue, Storyville, Atlantic, Verve, Wave, Milestone, MPS, Polydor, Bellaphon, SteepleChase, Sonet, Groove Merchant, Roulette, Progressive, Choice, IAI, Chiaroscuro, Circle, Black Lion, Soul Note, Storyville, Evidence, and Philogy.





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