LEE KONITZ
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Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American jazz composer and saxophone player.
Konitz is sometimes regarded as the preeminent cool jazz saxophonist, because he performed and recorded with Claude Thornhill, Lennie Tristano (both often cited as important cool jazz proponents of the mid 1940s), and with Miles Davis' on his epochal Birth of the Cool, which gave the form its name.
Konitz has also been repeatedly noted as one of the few jazz saxophonists of the late 1940s and 1950s who did not seem imitative of the massively influential Charlie Parker.
In the early 1950s, Konitz recorded and toured with Stan Kenton's orchestra.
In 1961, he recorded Motion with Elvin Jones on drums and Sonny Dallas 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.
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Konitz
Cool Jazz
1954
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An Image
Cool Jazz
1958
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Motion
Cool Jazz
1961
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Spirits
Cool Jazz
1972
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Lone-Lee
Cool Jazz
1975
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Satori
Cool Jazz
1975
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Oleo
Cool Jazz
1975
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Pyramid
Avant-Garde Jazz
1977
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Timespan
Cool Jazz
1977
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Nonet
Cool Jazz
1977
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Affinity
Cool Jazz
1977
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Tenorlee
Cool Jazz
1978
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Dovetail
Cool Jazz
1985
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Zounds
Cool Jazz
1991
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Pride
Cool Jazz
2000
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Deep Lee
Cool Jazz
2008
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Insight
Cool Jazz
2011
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Leewise
Cool Jazz
1993
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Thingin
Post Bop
1996
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Live-Lee
Cool Jazz
2003
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Rhapsody
Cool Jazz
1993
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Move
Cool Jazz
1994
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