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Lee Konitz

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Born
13 October 1927
Born In
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
Died
15 April 2020 (aged 92)
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 … read more
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 pr… read more
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 Bi… read more

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1 Someone to Watch Over Me Someone to Watch Over Me
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2 Play track Motion I Remember You
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3 Play track Motion Foolin' Myself
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4 Play track Palo Alto Two Not One
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5 Play track Very Cool Crazy She Calls Me
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6 I'll Remember April - Live At The Haig, Los Angeles / 1953 I'll Remember April - Live At The Haig, Los Angeles / 1953
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7 Play track All of Me All of Me
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8 Blues for Our Children Round Midnight
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9 Play track Lee Konitz With Warne Marsh I Can't Get Started
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10 Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre When Your Lover Has Gone
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  1. 35,728 listeners

    1 Jan 1961 · 5 tracks

    Motion
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  2. 25,273 listeners

    1994 · 16 tracks

    Palo Alto
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    14 Jun 1955 · 8 tracks

    Lee Konitz With Warne Marsh
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  4. 16,791 listeners

    1 Jan 1950 · 13 tracks

    Subconscious-Lee
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