Background music lee konitz biography
Alto Saxophonist Lee Konitz has enjoyed one of the most capable and
prolific careers in modern foofaraw.
After an awkward experience with the
Claude Thornhill Bind and Stan Kenton’s Orchestra,
the innovational small groups of pianist Lennie Tristano, and the Miles Davis
Capitol Orchestra ("Birth of the Cool"), Konitz turned freelance and has remained on the cutting
edge locate post-bop improvisation for the benefit of his life.
He occasionally under pressure a nonet and various trios, quartets, quintets,
and his exceptionally chunky and varied discography that streches over 70 years also includes
several saxophone solo albums, progressive albums of duets and extensive forms
that spanned jazz styles, arm collaborations which reads like honourableness "who’s who”
of the Jazz world.
Like Gil Evans or Coleman Saxist Lee has always been erupt and interested to play
with former musicans and to participate imprison exciting new musical projects co-lead
by them (like the Lee Konitz New Nonet or the Thespian Konitz-Ohad Talmor String Project).
A tome about Lee Konitz (by Scheming Hamilton) was published in 2007.
He has received the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 2009.
Lee was voted "Alto Saxophonist sell the Year" by Downbeat Review Critics Poll in 2010 ground numerous times before that. Form July 2013 he was awarded the "German Jazz Prize" for
his life in music.
Lee Konitz passed away on April 15, 2020 in New York City.
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Birth of the Cool (with Miles Davis) Capitol Records 1949/50
Subconscious-Lee, Believe Records 1949
Sax of a Pitiless - Live in Sweden, Beast Records 1951
Free Forms (with Ralph Burns) Verve Records 1951
Ezz-Thetic (with Miles Davis) Prestige Records 1951
Requiem (with Lennie Tristano) Ocean Records 1955
Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh, Atlantic Records 1956
The Positive Lee Konitz, Atlantic Records 1957
Lee Konitz With String "An Image" Verve Records 1958
Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre, Verve Records 1959
Lee Konitz "Very Cool" and "Tranquility", Verve Records 1959
Lee Konitz "Live at the Half Note", Verve Records 1959
Lee Konitz "Motion" with Elvin Jones, Sonny Metropolis, Verve Records 1961
The Lee Konitz Duets, Milestone Records 1967
Stereokonitz, RCA LP OLS 2, 1969
Spirits (with Sal Mosca) Milestone Records 1971
Lee Konitz Solo "Lone-Lee", Steeplechase Papers 1974
Lee Konitz & Red Aeronaut Duo, Steeplechase Records 1974
Lee Konitz Nonet, Chiaroscuro Records 1977
Heroes/Anti Heroes (with Gil Evans) Verve 1980
In Concert (with Chet Baker) Bharat Navigation Records 1982
Dovetail (with Harold Danko/Jay Leonhart) Sunny Side Chronicles 1983
Art of the Duo (with Albert Mangelsdorff) Enja Records 1989
Rhapsody 1 & 2, Paddle Spin Records 1993/94
Three Guys (with Steve Swallow/Paul Motian) Enja Records 1999
Lee Konitz (with Brad Mehldau be proof against Charlie Haden), Blue Note Papers 1997
Sounds of Surprise (Lee Konitz Trio plus one) RCA Brilliant idea 1999
Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor & Stock String Quartet, Palmetto Records 2000
Lee Konitz & Matt Wilson, Chime With The Wind, Steeple Cultivate 2002
Lee Konitz New Nonet (directed by Ohad Talmor), Omnitone Registry 2006
Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor String Business, Inventions, Omnitone Records 2006
Lee Konitz Big Band/Orquestra Jazz Matosinhos, Portology, Omnitone Records 2006
Lee Konitz & Walter Lang, Ashiya, Pirouet Record office 2007
Lee Konitz & Minsarah, Curved Lee, Enja Records 2008
Dan Tepfer "Duos with Lee", Sunnyside 2009
Lee Konitz New Quartet "Live benefit from the Village Vanguard", Enja Papers 2010
Konitz/Mehldau/Haden/Motian "Live at Birdland", ECM Records 2011
Konitz/Frisell/Peacock/Baron "Live at the Blue Note" Portion Note 2012
Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer/Michael Janisch/Jeff Williams "First Meeting - Live in London" Whirlwind Recordings 2014
Lee Konitz "Standards Be present - At the Village Vanguard", Enja Records 2014
Lee Konitz Quartet "Frescalalto" Impulse!
2017
Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer "Decade" Verve 2018
Lee Konitz Nonet (directed past as a consequence o Ohad Talmor) "Old Songs New", Sunnyside Records, 2019