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Lee Konitz

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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Discography

Prisma

Prisma

QFTF
2018

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Frescalalto

Frescalalto

Impulse!
2017

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First Meeting

First Meeting

Whirlwind Recordings
2014

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Enfants Terribles: Live at the Blue Note

Enfants Terribles:...

Half Note Records
2012

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Enfants Terribles

Blue Note
2012

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Lee Konitz: Four Classic Albums

Lee Konitz: Four...

Avid Records UK
2012

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