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	Gerry Mulligan by Craig Hanley - Lee Konitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And Konitz's rubato duet with the vehement Peacock, in particular, strikes me as both typical of his recent work and among his very finest recorded performances (one could say of Konitz, and not entirely in jest, that his favorite tempo is rubato).
		Konitz has released so many compelling albums that no new one is ever going to have quite the same impact on his career or on jazz as a whole that his sides with Tristano had in 1949, or that Duets had on its release in 1967.
		Lee began his career in the mid-Forties as a disciple of fellow Chicagoan Lennie Tristano, who founded a school of modern jazz that could be viewed as an alternative to bop; their 1949 recordings Intuition and Digression for Capitol are the first recorded examples of free jazz collective improvisation.
	www.mts.net /~hanley/m_konitz_lee.html (2495 words)

	Les Lundis d'Hortense - Le site - Musician
		Lee's earliest recorded solos, with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra in 1947, illustrate that Lee has embarked on a wholly individual stylistic journey.
		Lee Konitz has been applying his considerable energy and intellect in highly personal and specialized musical cause for almost half this 20th century.
		Lee KONITZ was occasionnally associated with Belgian musicians, such as Nathalie LORIERS (1 CD on AMC), Sal LA ROCCA, Bruno CASTELLUCCI, Michel HERR, Nicolas THYS, etc..., and more often, with guitarist Jeanfrançois PRINS and Judy NIEMACK, with whom he recorded a few times, a.o.
	www.jazzinbelgium.com /musician/lee.konitz (840 words)

	Lee Konitz
		Konitz was with Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool Nonet during their one gig and their Capitol recordings (1948-50) and recorded with Lennie Tristano's innovative sextet (1949) including the first two free improvisations ever documented.
		Konitz blended very well with Warne Marsh's tenor (their unisons on "Wow" are miraculous) and would have several reunions with both Tristano and Marsh through the years but he was also interested in finding his own way; by the early '50s he started breaking away from the Tristano school.
		Konitz toured Scandinavia (1951) where his cool sound was influential and he fit in surprisingly well with Stan Kenton's Orchestra (1952-54), being featured on many charts by Bill Holman and Bill Russo.
	www.djangomusic.com /artist_bio.asp?id=R+++248380 (321 words)

	Lee Konitz 10-Step Method
		This is a reprint of the Lee Konitz interview in Downbeat Magazine, December 1985.
		I once took a few seminally important lessons from Lee Konitz as a teenager and this was one of the techniques he showed me that opened many doors to the world of improvisation.
		Konitz is a master of the art of jazz improvisation.
	www.melmartin.com /html_pages/Interviews/konitz.html (1245 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lee Konitz
		Lee Konitz (born 1927 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American jazz composer and saxophone player.
		Konitz is sometimes regarded as the preeminent cool jazz saxophonist, due to his performing and recording with Claude Thornhill, Lennie Tristano (both are often cited as important cool jazz proponents of the mid 1940's), and Miles Davis' on his epochal Birth of the Cool, which gave the form its name.
		Birth of the Cool is an LP released in 1957 by Capitol Records in the USA, collecting eleven of the sides recorded by the nonet featuring Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan and others in 1949 and 1950.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lee-Konitz (842 words)

	Billy Taylor's Jazz \| Guest Artist Lee Konitz
		A native of Chicago, Konitz is among an illustrious group of musicians who participated in the 1949 recording sessions that became known as the Birth of the Cool.
		Konitz' approach to the alto sax was ideally suited to the goals of the “cool” movement, which was a more relaxed and subdued improvisational style than bebop.
		Konitz tells Billy that he first "played in a cocktail lounge with Tristano in about '46." He elicits laughter from Dr. Taylor and the audience by recalling a rotating circular bandstand on which they once played together.
	www.npr.org /programs/btaylor/pastprograms/lkonitz.html (569 words)

	enja Records - Lee Konitz
		68-year-old Lee Konitz is among the last living legends from the early days of cool jazz when he was a featured soloist with Lennie Tristano and Miles Davis.
		And much more: Konitz paid close and constant attention to the written score created by Daniel Schnyder who is not only an accomplished saxophonist himself but an experienced arranger with many compositions for orchestra, strings, and soloists to his credit.
		This new Konitz nonet (plus Schnyder in the arranging and conducting chair) is an environment which allows three generations to be all true to themselves and to one another, with the whole framework fitting like a glove.
	www.enjarecords.com /bio.php?artist=Lee+Konitz (303 words)

	Lee Konitz @ The Jazz Files (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born on Oct. 13, 1927 in Chicago, alto saxophonist, Lee Konitz first made his mark, playing saxophone in Claude Thornhill's orchestra in 1947.
		Konitz would sometimes reunite with March, and sometimes he would find new ground such as in the late 70s when he returned to the nonet form of the Birth of the Cool days.
		Lee Konitz is a player with a deep, clean, somewhat detached style, who manages to find airy and cliché-free lines in his music.
	www.thejazzfiles.com /JazzKonitz.html (243 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Lee Konitz
		Konitz had grown up in Chicago, played in the influential Claude Thornhill band (which employed Gil Evans as its arranger, and was very important in influencing the Birth of the Cool nonet) and he worked with the influential teacher and pianist Lennie Tristano.
		This, plus a period in Stan Kenton's band in the early 1950s, extended his range of experience and playing contexts, and he has continued to excel in all sizes of ensemble, although his most original and challenging work has been in duos, trios and quartets, particularly his regular pairing with pianist Harold Danko.
		For much of the time since the mid-1960s, Konitz has lived and worked in Europe, and he has also become popular in Japan, to the extent that his appearances in the United States have taken on considerable importance owing to their relative scarcity.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/jazz/profiles/lee_konitz.shtml (351 words)

	CATALOG: LEE KONITZ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Konitz listens, to the ideas of the musicians who surround him; and he thinks, drawing fresh ideas of his own to the surface rather than merely rehashing familiar clichés.
		Konitz was looking back more than two decades on this occasion when he assembled a program that recalled his early apprenticeship with pianist/mentor Lennie Tristano (see OJC-186, Subconscious-Lee, for examples of their classic work together).
		The evolution in Konitz's style and that of pianist Sal Mosca, and the duet format heard on a majority of the tracks, ensured that Spirits was grounded in a sense of new discovery that still resonates.
	www.fantasyjazz.com /catalog/konitz_l_cat.html (706 words)

	Lee Konitz \| Live-Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lee Konitz continues to hold court as one of the most inventive improvisors in the century- plus old idiom of jazz.
		The venue remains one of Konitz’s favorite and most frequented West Coast haunts and his comfortable familiarity with the surroundings usually results in exemplary music.
		Konitz fattens his tone even further through an acappella introduction, ingeniously incorporating space and an implied sense of rhythm as he suspends curlicued phrases for carefully measured seconds.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r0703_085.htm (647 words)

	Lee Konitz \| Parallels
		It is Konitz' nature to travel alone to various venues and to play with the local musicians as a continuing exploration in the variations of sound and the humanity involved in the instantaneous exchange of ideas.
		The appeal of Lee Konitz, always going against the stream of jazz development and pursuing his own muse, has been the irresistibility of his pristine tone combined with the unpredictability of his always restless ideas.
		Parallels presents Konitz in yet another of his countless recordings with equally creative sidemen and the highest possible reproduction of the music from a live event to a recorded CD.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r0701_125.htm (691 words)

	Amazon.com: Lee Konitz Duets: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lee Konitz is best when in conversation with one or two other instruments as his voice demands extensive reciting ideally captured on "Duets".
		Konitz with his wandering, moaning, bending and curving, non - offensive exploration is a delight.
		Lee Konitz makes the avant-garde an accessible standard music and the standard far from expected.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000YQ0?v=glance (549 words)

	An interview with Lee Konitz
		Long regarded as the most complex and esoteric jazz artist, Lee's music soars over the heads of average jazz fans, and that is why he is appreciated mostly by connoisseurs.
		Konitz is also the jazz artist who has the most in common with great Indian classical musicians, despite the fact that he never engages in modal improvisation, something he doesn't enjoy.
		The connection Konitz has to Indian classical music stems from the abstract and subtle nature of his art, fueled by an intense and uninhibited fusing of spiritual and intellectual energies, and also from his New York City/Chicago/Russian/European Jewish cultural heritage, the musical distillation of which yields a profound melancholy, both haunting and comforting.
	www.sawf.org /Newedit/edit09182000/musicarts.asp (4255 words)

	Lee Konitz -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lee Konitz -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Lee Konitz (born 1927 in (Click link for more info and facts about Chicago, Illinois) Chicago, Illinois) is a (A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles) jazz composer and (A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore) saxophone player.
		In the early 1950's, Konitz recorded and toured with the (Click link for more info and facts about Stan Kenton) Stan Kenton's orchestra.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/lee_konitz.htm (121 words)

	Jazzmatazz Review - Lee Konitz - Parallels
		On Parallels, Konitz is joined by two musicians he's worked with before—bassist Steve Gilmore and drummer Bill Goodwin—and two new musicians—the frequently recording guitarist Peter Bernstein and the young, talented tenor saxophonist Mark Turner.
		The group performs two old Konitz compositions, "Palo Alto" and "Subconscious-Lee," both from around 1950; two recent Konitz compositions, "Lt" and "For Hans"; a Konitz/Turner improv, "Eyes"; and two standards, "How Deep is the Ocean" and "Skylark."
		Konitz still plays with a long, swinging line and his improvising is highly melodic.
	jazzmatazz.home.att.net /reviews.p/R0111f.html (266 words)

	Jorrit Dijkstra
		Konitz and tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh were the sounding breath of the lucid Tristano School, initiated by New York composer and pianist Lennie Tristano in the early nineteen-fifties.
		The grace and emotional reserve of Konitz's pieces from the 1948-58 period are Sound-Lee!’s strongest source of musical inspiration.
		Sound-Lee!’s creative impulses with Konitz’s schemes avoid the formal reconstruction of the historical cool-jazz style.
	www.jorritdijkstra.com /soundlee.html (195 words)

	Lee Konitz
		Alto saxophonist Lee Konitz was merely 21 years of age in 1948, when he played on Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool (Capitol).
		During the next decade, he would emerge as a relentlessly individual alto voice, and the most convincing evangelist of the Gospel of Lennie Tristano.
		Today, at 73, Konitz shows no signs of complacency; he has recently released a winning anthology of original compositions (Sound of Surprise, RCA Victor) as well as a thoughtful chamber album (Lee Konitz and The Axis String Quartet Play French Impressionist Music From the 20th Century, Palmetto).
	www.citypaper.net /articles/012501/cw.crit.lee.shtml (104 words)

	Lee Konitz Tickets - Buy Lee Konitz Concert Tickets Online from South Bay Tickets
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	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Lee Konitz: MAIN
		Lee Konitz: Portrait of an Artist as Saxophonist
		Lee Konitz has been applying his considerable energy and intellect in highly personal...
		Lee KONITZ was occasionnally associated with Belgian musicians,...
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	More Live-Lee by Lee Konitz CD
		Whereas most alto saxophonists of his generation were (quite understandably) under the sway of Charlie Parker stylistically, Lee Konitz always blazed his own path, his horn lines sounding almost detached and dry-ice cool even on the most scorching tunes.
		While some musicians find their forte and never stray far from it, Konitz challenges himself with vastly different contexts--playing accompanied only by bass and drums, working with a string section, embarking on improvisations with guitarist Derek Bailey, and even contributing to the Elvis Costello album NORTH.
		The program is mostly standards, performed with a mixture of warm, subtle swing, intellectual wit, and brevity (the longest tune is eight minutes), with a complete lack of overt sentimentality.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6737994/a/More+Live-Lee.htm (425 words)

	News - Lee Konitz, Information, Lee Konitz Tickets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His career reads like a who’s who, performing with jazz heavy hitters of the era: Benny Goodman, Sonny Rollins, Lee Konitz, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders and Albert Ayler.
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	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: J: Jazz: Bands and Artists: K: Konitz, Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Enja Records: Lee Konitz - Profile from a record company.
		Lee Konitz: Back to Basics - Article by David Kasten and Lee Kontz from Downbeat Magazine, about improvisation.
		Jazz Professional: Lee Konitz - Interview with Les Tomkins.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Styles/J/Jazz/Bands_and_Artists/K/Konitz,_Lee (169 words)

	Konitz kleverness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lee Konitz Miles Davis Ezz-thetic 1962 New Jazz LP VG++
		Has recorded with Ernie Watts and Rick Margitza, and has played with Lee Konitz, Larry Coryell, and Tony Campise.
		Artistes : Guillaume de Chassy, Lee Konitz, CÃ©sarius Alvim, Jeff Gardner, FranÃ§ois Tusques, Daniel Yvinec...
	www.thingsthatstartwithk.com /konitz.html (340 words)

	Lee Konitz News
		News about Lee Konitz continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Jazz Chuck Workman Like a phoenix rising from ashes, bassist Henry Grimes has reappeared on the jazz scene after 30 years of absence.
		On Friday night, the Chicago-born alto saxophonist Lee Konitz made a rare visit to Symphony Center, and he began by walking onstage alone and asking the audience to hum a note.
	www.topix.net /who/lee-konitz (284 words)

	The Bebop Shop Lee Konitz
		Lee Konitz: Body And Soul (CD: Black Lion)
		Along with the recordings the Lennie Tristano Sextet made for Capitol, the four sessions that make up this CD form the definitive statement from the Tristano "salon," establishing the blind, Chicago-born pianist and his foremost disciples, Konitz and Marsh, as a force and influence on the jazz of the 1950s. (Fantasy, Inc.)
		Lee Konitz: Another Shade Of Blue (CD: Blue Note)
	www.thebebopshop.com /acatalog/The_Bebop_Shop_Lee_Konitz_106.html (115 words)

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