Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
composerA composer is a person who creates music, usually by musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of...
and
alto saxophonistThe alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer in 1841 Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the tenor, is the most common size of saxophone...
born in Chicago, Illinois.
Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings. Konitz was one of the few altoists to retain a distinctive sound in the 40s, when Charlie Parker exercised a tremendous influence on other players.
Konitz, like other students of pianist and theoretician
Lennie TristanoLeonard Joseph Tristano was a jazz pianist and composer. He performed in the cool jazz, bebop, post bop and avant-garde jazz genres...
, was noted for improvising long, melodic lines with the rhythmic interest coming from odd accents, or odd note groupings suggestive of the imposition of one time signature over another.
Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
composerA composer is a person who creates music, usually by musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of...
and
alto saxophonistThe alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer in 1841 Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the tenor, is the most common size of saxophone...
born in Chicago, Illinois.
Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings. Konitz was one of the few altoists to retain a distinctive sound in the 40s, when Charlie Parker exercised a tremendous influence on other players.
Konitz, like other students of pianist and theoretician
Lennie TristanoLeonard Joseph Tristano was a jazz pianist and composer. He performed in the cool jazz, bebop, post bop and avant-garde jazz genres...
, was noted for improvising long, melodic lines with the rhythmic interest coming from odd accents, or odd note groupings suggestive of the imposition of one time signature over another.
Paul DesmondPaul Desmond , born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five"...
and, especially,
Art PepperArt Pepper , born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an American alto saxophonist.-Career:...
were strongly influenced by Konitz.
Konitz's association with the
Cool JazzCool jazz is a style of jazz music that arose during the Second World War. During this time, there was an influx of Californian jazz musicians to New York. Once there, these musicians mixed with the mostly black bebop musicians, and were also influenced by the "smooth" sound of black saxophonist...
movement of the 1940s and 50s, includes participation in
Miles DavisMiles Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music including cool jazz, hard bop, free jazz...
' epochal
Birth of the CoolBirth of the Cool is an album which compiles twelve songs recorded by the Miles Davis nonet for Capitol Records in 1949 and 1950. Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements strongly inspired by classical music, and marked a major...
sessions, and his work with Lennie Tristano came from the same period. During his long career, Konitz has played with musicians from a wide variety of jazz styles.
Biography
Lee Konitz was born in 1927 in Chicago, Illinois into a Jewish family (Konitz is a variant of the name Cohen). At age eight Konitz received his first instrument—a
clarinetThe clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet...
—but later dropped the instrument in favor of the
tenor saxophoneThe tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, is the most common type of saxophone. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef,...
.
Konitz eventually moved from tenor to alto. His greatest influences at the time were the swing big bands he and his brother listened to on the
radioRadio is the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
, in particular
Benny GoodmanBenjamin David Goodman was an American jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
. Hearing Goodman on the radio is actually what prodded him to ask for a clarinet. On the saxophone he recalls improvising before ever learning to play any standards.
Konitz began his professional career in 1945 with the
Teddy PowellTeddy Powell was an American jazz guitarist, composer and big band leader...
band as a replacement for
Charlie VenturaCharlie Ventura was a tenor saxophonist and bandleader.Ventura was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had his first successes working with Gene Krupa. In 1945 he won the Down Beat readers' poll in the tenor saxophone division...
. The engagement apparently did not start out smoothly, as Ventura is said to have banged his head against a wall when Konitz played. A month later the band parted ways. Between 1945 and 1947 he worked off and on with
Jerry WaldJerry Wald was an Academy Award-winning American producer and screenwriter for motion pictures and radio shows....
. In 1946 he first met
pianistA pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
Lennie TristanoLeonard Joseph Tristano was a jazz pianist and composer. He performed in the cool jazz, bebop, post bop and avant-garde jazz genres...
and worked in a small cocktail bar with him. His next substantial work was done with
Claude ThornhillClaude Thornhill was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader...
in 1947, with
Gil EvansGil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States...
arranging and
Gerry MulliganGerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable...
as a composer in most part.
In 1949 he teamed up with the
Miles DavisMiles Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music including cool jazz, hard bop, free jazz...
group for one or two weeks and again in 1950 to record
Birth of the CoolBirth of the Cool is an album which compiles twelve songs recorded by the Miles Davis nonet for Capitol Records in 1949 and 1950. Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements strongly inspired by classical music, and marked a major...
. Konitz has stated that he considered the group to belong to Gerry Mulligan, and credits Lennie Tristano as the true forebearer of "the cool". His debut as leader also came in 1949, with the release of
Subconscious-Lee on
Prestige RecordsPrestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock. The label's name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year. Its catalog contains a significant number of jazz classics, including renowned works by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and many...
. He also turned down an opportunity to work with
Benny GoodmanBenjamin David Goodman was an American jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
that same year—a decision he is on record as regretting.
In the early 1950s, Konitz recorded and toured with
Stan KentonStanley Newcomb Kenton was a pianist who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator.- Early life :...
's orchestra. In 1961, he recorded
Motion with
Elvin JonesElvin Ray Jones was one of the great jazz drummers of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1949 and subsequently played in a Detroit houseband led by...
on drums and
Sonny DallasFrancis Dominic Joseph Dallas, also known as Frank "Sonny" Dallas, was a jazz bassist and singer....
on bass. This spontaneous session, widely regarded as a classic in the cool genre, consisted entirely of standards. The loose trio format aptly featured Konitz's unorthodox phrasing and chromaticism.
Charlie ParkerCharles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker, with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, is often considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians...
lent him support on the day Konitz's child was being born in
Seattle, WashingtonSeattle is located in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Situated in the western part of Washington State on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about south of the Canada – United States border, it is named after Chief Sealth, of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes...
with him stuck in
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
. The two were actually good friends, and not the rivals some jazz critics once made them out to be. He has also had problems with his heart which he has received surgery for in the past.
In 1967, Konitz recorded
The Lee Konitz Duets, a series of duets with various musicians. The duo configurations were often unusual for the period (saxophone and trombone, two saxophones). The recordings drew on very nearly the entire history of
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, from a
Louis ArmstrongLouis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
dixielandDixieland music, sometimes referred to as Hot jazz or New Orleans jazz, is a style of jazz which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s...
number with valve trombonist
Marshall BrownMarshall Brown was a jazz musician and educator. He played trombones and, less often, bass trumpet or euphonium. He was one of the few left-handed players of the trombone.Brown was little recorded, and devoted most of his career to education...
to two completely
freeFree improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician involved; in many cases the musicians make an active effort to avoid overt references to recognizable musical genres...
duos: one with a
Duke EllingtonEdward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader.Duke Ellington became one of the most influential artists in the history of recorded music, and is largely recognized as one of the greatest figures in the history of jazz, though his music stretched into...
associate,
violinThe violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist
Ray NanceRay Willis Nance was a jazz trumpeter, violinist and singer.Nance is best known for his long association with Duke Ellington through most of the 1940s and 1950s, after he was hired to replace Cootie Williams in 1940...
, and one with
guitarThe guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
ist
Jim HallJames Stanley Hall is an American Jazz guitarist.-Biography:Educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Hall moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s. There he studied classic guitar with Vincente Gómez...
.
Konitz contributed to the
film scoreA film score is an alternative word used for the background music of a film . The term soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does not...
for
Desperate CharactersDesperate Characters is a 1971 American drama film produced, written, and directed by Frank D. Gilroy, who based his screenplay on the 1970 novel of the same name by Paula Fox.-Plot synopsis:...
(1971).
Konitz has been quite prolific, recording dozens of albums as a band leader. He has also recorded or performed with
Dave BrubeckDavid Warren Brubeck , known as Dave Brubeck, is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational...
,
Ornette ColemanOrnette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....
,
Charles MingusCharles Mingus, Jr. was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and pianist. He was also known for his activism against racial injustice....
,
Gerry MulliganGerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable...
,
Elvin JonesElvin Ray Jones was one of the great jazz drummers of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1949 and subsequently played in a Detroit houseband led by...
and others.
Konitz has become more experimental as he has grown older, and has released a number of free and avant-garde jazz albums, playing alongside many far younger musicians. He has released albums on contemporary free jazz/improv labels such as hatART, Soul Jazz and Omnitone.
As leader
- 1949: Lee Konitz (Prestige)
- 1949: Subconscious-Lee
Subconscious-Lee is a jazz album by Lee Konitz. It was recorded in 1949 and 1950, and released on the Prestige label.-Track listing:# "Progression" - 3:00# "Tautology" - 2:45# "Retrospection" - 3:09...
(Prestige: OJC)
- 1951: Sax of a Kind (Dragon)
- 1953: Lee Konitz: Bob Brookmeyer in Paris (Vogue)
- 1953: Konitz Meets Mulligan (Pacific Jazz)
- 1954: Konitz (Black Lion)
- 1954: Jazz at Storyville (Black Lion)
- 1954: In Harvard Square (Black Lion)
- 1954: Lee Konitz: Warne Marsh (Atlantic)
- 1956: Lee Konitz Featuring Hans Koller, Lars Gullin, Roland Kovac (Swingtime)
- 1956: Inside Hi-Fi (Atlantic)
- 1957: Tranquility (Verve)
- 1957: The Real Lee Konitz (Atlantic)
- 1958: Very Cool (Verve)
- 1958: An Image: Lee Konitz with Strings (Verve)
- 1959: Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre (Verve)
- 1959: You and Lee (Verve)
- 1959: Live at the Half Note (Verve)
- 1961: Motion
Motion is an album by jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz, recorded in 1961 for Verve Records. It features the great jazz drummer Elvin Jones as well the obscure bass player Sonny Dallas...
(Verve)
- 1965: Trio and Quartet (Magnetic)
- 1966: Modern Jazz Compositions from Haiti (Impulse!)
- 1967: The Lee Konitz Duets (Milestone: OJC)
- 1968: Impressive Rome (CAM)
- 1968: European Episode (CAM)
- 1969: Peacemeal (Milestone)
- 1970: Lee Konitz Sax Duets (Music Minus One)
- 1971: Spirits (Milestone: OJC)
- 1974: Jazz Juan (SteepleChase)
- 1974: Satori (Milestone: OJC)
- 1974:Lone-Lee (SteepleChase)
- 1974: I Concentrate on You (A Tribute to Cole Porter) (SteepleChase)
- 1975: Warne Marsh Quintet: Jazz Exchange (Storyville)
- 1975: Hal Galper: Windows (SteepleChase)
- 1975 Trio: Oleo (Sonet)
- 1975 Chicago 'n' All That Jazz (Denon: LaserLight)
- 1976: Lee Konitz Meets Warne Marsh Again (PAUSA)
- 1976: Figure and Spirit (Progressive)
- 1977: The Lee Konitz Quintet (Chiaroscuro Records
-Artists:*Earl Hines*Soprano Summit*Joe Venuti*Milt Hinton*Ruby Braff*Bobby Hackett*Dave McKenna*Mike Jones*Buck Clayton*Dick Wellstood*Dorothy Donegan*Ralph Sutton*Eddie Condon*Lee Konitz*Eubie Blake*Louie Bellson*Nat Adderley*Ahmad Jamal...
)
- 1977: The Lee Konitz Nonet (Chiaroscuro)
- 1977 Tenorlee (Candid)
- 1977 Pyramid (Improvising Artists
-DIscography:...
)
- 1979: Seasons Change (Circle Records (Germany)
Circle Records was an Germany based record label specializing in jazz, established in 1976. -Discography:Circle Records was an Germany based record label specializing in jazz, established in 1976. -Discography:...
, with Karl BergerKarl Hanns Berger is a musicologist with a PhD in Music Sociology, jazz composer, jazz vibraphone and piano player. -Biography:...
)
- 1979 Nonet: Live at Laren (Soul Note)
- 1979 Yes, Yes Nonet (Steeple Chase)
- 1980: Martial Solal: Live at the Berlin Jazz Days (MPS)
- 1980: Heroes (Verve)
- 1982 Toot Sweet (Owl)
- 1983 Glad, Koonix! (Dragon)
- 1983: Martial Solal: Star Eyes, Hamburg 1983 (HatOLOGY)
- 1983 Dovetail (Sunnyside)
- 1983 Dedicated To Lee: Lee Konitz Plays The Music of Lars Gullin (Dragon)
- 1983 Art of the Duo (Enja)
- 1984 Wild as Springtime (GFM)
- 1986 Quartet: Ideal Scene (Soul Note)
- 1986 Medium Rare (Label Bleu)
- 1987 Quartet: The New York Album (Soul Note)
- 1988: The Space Jazz Trio: Blew (Philology)
- 1988: Solitudes (Philology)
- 1989: In Rio (MA)
- 1989: Konitz in Denmark (Rightone)
- 1989: Round and Round (Music Masters)
- 1990: Frank Wunsch Quartet: S'Nice (Nabel)
- 1990: Zounds (Soul Note)
- 1990: Once Upon a Line (Musidisc)
- 1991: Lars Sjosten Quartet: Friends (Dragon)
- 1991: Lullaby of Birdland (Candid)
- 1992 The Jazzpar All Star Nonet: Leewise (Storyville)
- 1992 Jazz Nocturne (Evidence)
- 1992: Lunasea (Soul Note)
- 1992: From Newport to Nice (Philology)
- 1992: Frank-Lee Speaking (West Wind)
- 1993: Rhapsody (Evidence)
- 1993: Renato Sellani: Speakin' Lowly, Volume 1 (Philology)
- 1993: So Many Stars (Philology)
- 1993: Rhapsody II (Evidence)
- 1993: Italian Ballads, Volume1 (Philology)
- 1993: Brazilian Rhapsody (BMG: Music Masters)
- 1994: Orchestra Il Suono Improvviso: A Venezia (Philology)
- 1994 Swiss Kiss (TCB)
- 1995: Haiku (Nabel)
- 1995: Umberto Petrin: Breaths and Whispers (Homage to Alexandr Skrjabin) (Philology)
- 1995: John Pl Indreberg: Step Towards a Dream (Odin)
- 1995: Don Friedman: Attila Zoller: Thingin' (HatOLOGY)
- 1995: Move (Moon)
- 1995: Free with Lee(Philology)
- 1996: Alone Together (Blue Note)
- 1996 : Live at the Manhattan Jazz Club (GAM)
- 1996 Guarana (AxolOtl Jazz)
- 1996 Unaccompanied Live in Yokohama (PSF)
- 1996 Strings for Holiday: A Tribute To Billie Holiday (Enja)
- 1996 Lee Konitz Meets Don Friedman (Camerata)
- 1996 It's You (SteepleChase)
- 1997 Twelve Gershwin in Twelve Keys (Philology)
- 1997 Out of Nowhere (SteepleChase)
- 1997: The Frankfurt Concert (West Wind)
- 1997: Dearly Beloved (SteepleChase)
- 1997: Body and Soul (Camerata)
- 1998: Saxophone Dreams (Koch)
- 1998:Inside Cole Porter (Philology)
- 1998:L'Age Mur (Philology)
- 1998: Tender Lee (for Chet) (Philology)
- 1998: Self Portrait (Philology)
- 1998: Dialogues (Challenge)
- 1999: Dig-It (SteepleChase)
- 1999: Three Guys (Enja)
- 1999: Trio: Another Shade of Blue (Blue Note)
- 2000: The Axis Quartet: Play French Impressionist Music from the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Palmetto)
- 2000: rich Perry: RichLee! (SteepleChase)
- 2000 Quartet: Sound of Surprise (RCA Victor)
- 2000 Pride (SteepleChase)
- 2001: Franco D'Andrea: Inside Rodgers (Philology)
- 2001: Renato Sellani: Minority, Volume 2: All The Way (The Soft Ways) (Philology)
- 2001 Trio: Some New Stuff (DIW)
- 2001 Quintet: Parallels (Chesky)
- 2002: Matt Wilson: Gong with Wind Suite (Steeplechase)
- 2002: Irio De Paula: Duas Contas (Philology)
- 2002: Barbara Casini: Outra Vez (Philology)
- 2002 At the New Mississippi Jazz Club (Philology)
- 2003 Live-Lee (Milestone)
- 2003: Stephano Bollani: Suite for Paolo (Philology)
- 2003: Kenny Werner: Unleemited (Owl)
- 2003: A Day in Florence (Philology)
- 2004: BargaLee (Philology)
- 2004: Sound-Lee (Membran International)
- 2004: One Day With Lee (Capri)
- 2006:Ohad Talmor String Project: Inventions(OmniTone)
- 2006: New Nonet (directed by Ohad Talmor) (OmniTone)
- 2007: Riccardo Arrighini: The Soprano Sax Album: Standards (Philology)
- 2007: Brian Dickenson: The Glen Gould Session (Philology)
- 2007: Ohad Talmor Big Band: Portology(featuring the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos) (OmniTone)
As sideman
With Stan KentonStanley Newcomb Kenton was a pianist who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator.- Early life :...
- Retrospective (1943)
- City of Glass
- Stan Kenton Plays Bob Graettinger
- Portraits On Standards
With Miles DavisMiles Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music including cool jazz, hard bop, free jazz...
- Birth of the Cool
Birth of the Cool is an album which compiles twelve songs recorded by the Miles Davis nonet for Capitol Records in 1949 and 1950. Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements strongly inspired by classical music, and marked a major...
(1949)
With Bill EvansWilliam John Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, John Taylor, Steve Kuhn, Don...
- Crosscurrents
Crosscurrents is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1977.Along with Evans' current trio of Eddie Gomez and Eliot Zigmund, Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh guest on alto and tenor saxophone respectively.-Track listing:...
(1977)
With Gil EvansGil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States...
- Gil Evans & Ten
Gil Evans & Ten is the first album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans as a leader and was released on the Prestige label in 1957...
(1957)
With Lennie TristanoLeonard Joseph Tristano was a jazz pianist and composer. He performed in the cool jazz, bebop, post bop and avant-garde jazz genres...
- Lennie Tristano
Lennie Tristano, also known as Tristano, is a 1956 album by blind bebop jazz pianist Lennie Tristano. At its release, the album was controversial for its innovative use of technology, with Tristano overdubbing piano and manipulating tape speed for effect on the first four tracks. The final five...
(1956)
With others
- 1947 - Claude Thornhill
Claude Thornhill was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader...
and His Orchestra: The Uncollected Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra (Hindsight)
- 1949 - Lennie Tristano
Leonard Joseph Tristano was a jazz pianist and composer. He performed in the cool jazz, bebop, post bop and avant-garde jazz genres...
/Warne MarshWarne Marion Marsh was an American tenor saxophonist born in Los Angeles.-Biography:Marsh came from an affluent background: his father was the cinematographer Oliver T. Marsh , and his mother Elizabeth was a violinist...
: Intuition (Capitol)
- 1968 - Attila Zoller
Attila Cornelius Zoller was the first guitarist to discover free jazz and is considered as one of the innovators of modern jazz guitar....
: Zo-Ko-Ma (MPS RecordsMPS Records was a German jazz record label founded in 1968. MPS stands for "Musik Produktion Schwarzwald" .-History:...
)
- 1972 - Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus, Jr. was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and pianist. He was also known for his activism against racial injustice....
: Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (Columbia)
Further reading
Andy Hamilton: *Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art* (University of Michigan Press, 2007).
Crafted out of numerous interviews between the author and his subject, the book offers a unique account of Konitz’s life and music, detailing his own insights into his musical education and his experiences with such figures as Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, Warne Marsh, Lennie Tristano, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell and Bill Evans.
http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=130264
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