Subconscious-Lee (Remaster) (Import) (CD)

While bebop was the jazz avant-garde of the late 1940's, there was a parallel movement about the same time as pianist Lennie Tristano and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz unofficially led the school of cool jazz. While preeminent alto icon Charlie Parker burned hot and bluesy (while still abstract), Konitz had an altogether drier, more cerebral, and subdued approach. Besides Tristano, he performed and recorded with Miles Davis, and bandleaders Claude Thornhill and Stan Kenton, before finally establishing himself as a leader. As his career extends into the `00s, Konitz is one of the few players of his generation who still stretches himself. Ever contemporary, he's recorded unaccompanied; with straight-ahead trios and quartets, etc.; and with string sections; and has engaged in totally free improvisation with the U.K. collective Company (often featuring Derek Bailey).

• Category:  Music  »  Jazz  »  Jazz Instrument
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• Release Date: March 28, 2005
• Label: Jvc Victor
• UPC: 4988002477319
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105938996
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Personnel: Lee Konitz (alto saxophone); Warne Marsh (tenor saxophone); Lennie Tristano, Sal Mosca (piano); Billy Bauer (guitar); Arnold Fishkin (bass); Shelly Manne, Denzil Best, Jeff Morton (drums).

Recorded in New York, New York. Originally released on Prestige (7004). Includes original liner notes by Ira Gitler.

Alto saxophonist Lee Konitz's original mentor, Lennie Tristano, appears on the first five tracks of this seminal 1955 LP, which gathers some of the greatest original bop recordings ever recorded (1949-50). They also make a nice companion set to Tristano's own revolutionary sextet sessions for Capitol, which original featured Konitz and his dueling saxophone twin, tenorist Warne Marsh. Marsh dances deftly here with Konitz on four sides, including "Fishin' Around" and "Tautology." What with his participation in the original Birth Of The Cool sessions, 1949 was truly an excellent year for Lee Konitz.

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