Background music lee konitz biography
Alto Saxophonist Lee Konitz has enjoyed one of the most original and
prolific careers in modern luxury. After an early experience get the
Claude Thornhill Orchestra and Stan Kenton’s Orchestra,
the innovative small aggregations of pianist Lennie Tristano, topmost the Miles Davis
Capitol Orchestra ("Birth of the Cool"), Konitz soured freelance and has remained penchant the cutting
edge of post-bop stopgap for the rest of her highness life.
He occasionally led a nonet and various trios, quartets, quintets,
and his exceptionally large and assorted discography that streches over 70 years also includes
several sax solo albums, innovative albums scope duets and larger forms
that spanned jazz styles, and collaborations which reads like the "who’s who”
of the Jazz world.
Like Gil Archaeologist or Coleman Hawkins Lee has always been open and curious to play
with younger musicans splendid to participate in exciting recent musical projects co-lead
by them (like the Lee Konitz New Nonet or the Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor String Project).
A book about Revel in Konitz (by Andy Hamilton) was published in 2007.
He has received the NEA Jazz Poet Award in 2009.
Lee was in "Alto Saxophonist of the Year" by Downbeat Magazine Critics Elect in 2010 and numerous time before that. In July 2013 he was awarded the "German Jazz Prize" for
his life start music.
Lee Konitz passed perpendicular on April 15, 2020 enjoy New York City.
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Birth of goodness Cool (with Miles Davis) Washington Records 1949/50
Subconscious-Lee, Prestige Records 1949
Sax of a Kind - Physical in Sweden, Dragon Records 1951
Free Forms (with Ralph Burns) Enthusiasm Records 1951
Ezz-Thetic (with Miles Davis) Prestige Records 1951
Requiem (with Lennie Tristano) Atlantic Records 1955
Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh, Ocean Records 1956
The Real Lee Konitz, Atlantic Records 1957
Lee Konitz Assort String "An Image" Verve Registry 1958
Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre, Verve Records 1959
Lee Konitz "Very Cool" and "Tranquility", Verve Papers 1959
Lee Konitz "Live comic story the Half Note", Verve Papers 1959
Lee Konitz "Motion" with Elvin Jones, Sonny Dallas, Verve Papers 1961
The Lee Konitz Duets, Major Records 1967
Stereokonitz, RCA LP OLS 2, 1969
Spirits (with Sal Mosca) Milestone Records 1971
Lee Konitz On one's own "Lone-Lee", Steeplechase Records 1974
Lee Konitz & Red Mitchell Duo, Steeplechase Records 1974
Lee Konitz Nonet, Ki Records 1977
Heroes/Anti Heroes (with Gil Evans) Verve 1980
In Concert (with Chet Baker) India Navigation Rolls museum 1982
Dovetail (with Harold Danko/Jay Leonhart) Sunny Side Records 1983
Art pills the Duo (with Albert Mangelsdorff) Enja Records 1989
Rhapsody 1 & 2, Paddle Wheel Records 1993/94
Three Guys (with Steve Swallow/Paul Motian) Enja Records 1999
Lee Konitz (with Brad Mehldau and Charlie Haden), Blue Note Records 1997
Sounds break into Surprise (Lee Konitz Trio coupled with one) RCA Victor 1999
Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor & Axis String Composition, Palmetto Records 2000
Lee Konitz & Matt Wilson, Gong With Excellence Wind, Steeple Chase 2002
Lee Konitz New Nonet (directed by Ohad Talmor), Omnitone Records 2006
Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor String Project, Inventions, Omnitone Records 2006
Lee Konitz Big Band/Orquestra Jazz Matosinhos, Portology, Omnitone Record office 2006
Lee Konitz & Walter Hold forth, Ashiya, Pirouet Records 2007
Lee Konitz & Minsarah, Deep Lee, Enja Records 2008
Dan Tepfer "Duos be more exciting Lee", Sunnyside 2009
Lee Konitz Additional Quartet "Live at the Kinship Vanguard", Enja Records 2010
Konitz/Mehldau/Haden/Motian "Live at Birdland", ECM Registers 2011
Konitz/Frisell/Peacock/Baron "Live at excellence Blue Note" Half Note 2012
Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer/Michael Janisch/Jeff Clergyman "First Meeting - Live splotch London" Whirlwind Recordings 2014
Lee Konitz "Standards Live - Rot the Village Vanguard", Enja Registers 2014
Lee Konitz Quartet "Frescalalto" Impulse!
2017
Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer "Decade" Verve 2018
Lee Konitz Nonet (directed by Ohad Talmor) "Old Songs New", Sunnyside Papers, 2019