Lee Konitz
While bebop was the jazz avant-garde of the late 1940's, there was a parallel movement about the same time as pianist Lennie Tristano and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz unofficially led the school of cool jazz. While preeminent alto icon Charlie Parker burned hot and bluesy (while still abstract), Konitz had an altogether drier, more cerebral, and subdued approach. Besides Tristano, he performed and recorded with Miles Davis, and bandleaders Claude Thornhill and Stan Kenton, before finally establishing himself as a leader. As his career extends into the `00s, Konitz is one of the few players of his generation who still stretches himself. Ever contemporary, he's recorded unaccompanied; with straight-ahead trios and quartets, etc.; and with string sections; and has engaged in totally free improvisation with the U.K. collective Company (often featuring Derek Bailey).
Round & Round
Lee Konitz
Nimbus, 2008
1 CD
Portology
Lee Konitz
Omnitone, 2007
1 CD
Inside Hi-Fi
Lee Konitz
Collectables Records, 2006
1 CD
Indian Summer
Lee Konitz
ZYX Records (USA), 2006
1 CD
Organic Lee
Lee Konitz
SteepleChase, 2006
1 CD
New Nonet
Lee Konitz
Omnitone, 2006
1 CD
Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor String Project: Inventions
Lee Konitz
Omnitone, 2006
1 CD
The Real Lee Konitz (Collectables)
Lee Konitz
Collectables Records, 2006
1 CD
