TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.1812
Lee Konitz Album Rankings
1
The 1949 Prestige recordings contained on this album are some of the greatest jazz performances ever, period.
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2
The music on this two-CD set has a strange history.
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3
This CD brings back one of altoist Lee Konitz's greatest sessions. In 1967 he recorded a series of very diverse duets, all of which succeed on their own terms.
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4
The 1954 Lee Konitz Quartet did not last long but they did record some worthwhile performances that still sound fresh over 40 years later.
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5
This is an unusual release, for it features altoist Lee Konitz playing unaccompanied.
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6
With his 80th birthday beckoning, Lee Konitz (the definitive saxophonist of the 1950s cool jazz sound) is still sharp.
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7
Altoist Lee Konitz recorded the original five songs of Motion on Aug. 29, 1961 in a trio with bassist Sonny Dallas and drummer Elvin Jones.
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8
Altoist Lee Konitz (who doubles on this CD on soprano) teams up with tenor-saxophonist Ted Brown, pianist Albert Dailey, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Joe Chambers for this session.
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14
The veteran saxophonist is featured in laidback sessions with the Metropole Orchestra.
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16
Mislabeled cool jazz and judged as too academic sounding and even soulless by some critics and musicians, the post bebop work of Lennie Tristano students like Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Sal Mosca, and
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18
Billed as the "Lee Konitz Terzet" (without ever defining what "Terzet" is), this fine trio set features Konitz on alto, tenor, soprano and even a vocal, plus pianist Harold Danko and bassist Jay Leon
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20
This excellent CD gives one a definitive look at altoist Lee Konitz at a period of time when he was breaking away from being a sideman and a student of Lennie Tristano and asserting himself as a lead
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21
This 1982 meeting between the veteran alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and the young pianist (19 at the time of the session) Michel Petrucciani is a success on all counts.
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24
While jazz wars continue to rage between the neo-classicists and most everyone else, veterans like alto saxophonist Lee Konitz thankfully continue to produce great music.
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29
Another good duo, this time with Hal Galper (p).
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30
This CD focuses primarily on Brazilian standards performed by the Konitz sextet, except for the Brazilian-flavored "Lunasea," written by Peggy Stern, which features her high school choir.
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31
The always open-minded altoist Lee Konitz teams up with the advanced pianist Martial Solal, bassist Niels Pedersen and drummer Daniel Humair for this adventurous set, recorded live at the 1974 Antibe
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34
This return engagement of the Lee Konitz Nonet sometimes receives greater praise than the group's debut, and includes elaborately-orchestrated versions of Hoagy Carmichael 's "Stardust," Wayne Shorte
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40
Altoist Lee Konitz and pianist Paul Bley had been aware of each other since the 1950s.
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45
While the trio Konitz assembled on Another Shade of Blue sticks to a very narrow span of material, that's no barrier to the excellence displayed on this recording.
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47
Alto great Lee Konitz is featured with German tenor saxophonist Peter Decker's quartet on this lively set from 1996.
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50
This is an excellent release that is fairly typical of a Lee Konitz program from the 1970s and '80s.
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51
Konitz switches to tenor sax on a much more traditional outing than usual, although it's a drum-free trio that features pianist Jimmy Rowles and bassist Michael Moore .
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53
Altoist Lee Konitz revisits his roots in pianist Lennie Tristano's music on this enjoyable recording from 1971.
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54
This set is the product of Lee Konitz' decision to record his quartet during the second half of a two-week stint in 1961 at the Midway Lounge in Pittsburgh.
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57
This excellent recording (part of their 1987 Jazzlore series) features altoist Lee Konitz with two separate quartets during 1956.
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59
This follow-up to Rhapsody is another eclectic mix, with 19 tracks featuring the veteran alto saxophonist in various small group settings.
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61
This unusual two-CD set not only reissues the original LP of the same name but three other rare Verve LP's from the 1950's.
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62
Lee Konitz continues to record at peak form, as clearly evidenced by this trio with Steve Swallow on electric bass and Paul Motian on drums.
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