Francois Theberge

Francois Theberge Group with Lee Konitz: Soliloque

by Jim Santella
October 8, 2008

Lee Konitz has collaborated with an eclectic array of musicians in recent years to make wonderful music. Now 81, the alto saxophonist continues to go his own way when, in the beginning, he could have been another Charlie Parker clone, as his musicianship and bebop developed at about the same time. Ties with Claude Thornhill, Lennie Tristano, Stan Kenton and Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool Nonet, however, set his career in motion and Konitz used those experiences ...