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Lee Konitz

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Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927) is an American composer and alto saxophonist. [1]

59 relations: Art Pepper, Atlantic Records, Attila Zoller, Avant-garde jazz, Bebop, Benny Goodman, Big band, Bill Frisell, Birth of the Cool, Blue Note Jazz Club, Brad Mehldau, Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden, Charlie Parker, Charlie Ventura, Chicago, Claude Thornhill, Cool jazz, Creative Music Studio, Dave Brubeck, Desperate Characters, DownBeat, Duke Ellington, Elvin Jones, Free improvisation, Gary Peacock, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, Grace Kelly (musician), Iola, Wisconsin, Jazz, Jerry Wald, Jim Hall (musician), Joey Baron, Lennie Tristano, Live at Birdland (Lee Konitz album), Louis Armstrong, Marshall Brown (musician), Miles Davis, Motion (Lee Konitz album), Mundell Lowe, Ornette Coleman, Palmetto Records, Paul Desmond, Paul Motian, Prestige Records, Ray Nance, RCA Red Seal Records, San Jose, California, Seattle, ..., SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions, Sonny Dallas, Stan Kenton, Subconscious-Lee, Teddy Powell, Types of trombone, Verve Records, Whirlwind Recordings, Woodstock Jazz Festival. Expand index (9 more) »

Art Pepper

Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American alto saxophonist and very occasional tenor saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Attila Zoller

Attila Cornelius Zoller (June 13, 1927 – January 25, 1998) was a jazz guitarist born in Hungary.

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Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Bill Frisell

William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American guitarist, composer and arranger.

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Birth of the Cool

Birth of the Cool is a compilation album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1957 on Capitol Records.

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Blue Note Jazz Club

Blue Note Jazz Club is a jazz club and restaurant located at 131 West 3rd Street in Greenwich Village, New York City.

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Brad Mehldau

Bradford Alexander "Brad" Mehldau (born August 23, 1970) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader.

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Charlie Haden

Charles Edward "Charlie" Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator known for his deep, warm sound, and whose career spanned more than fifty years.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Charlie Ventura

Charlie Ventura (born Charles Venturo; December 2, 1916 – January 17, 1992) was a tenor saxophonist and bandleader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Claude Thornhill

Claude Thornhill (August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.

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Cool jazz

Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz music that arose in the United States after World War II.

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Creative Music Studio

The Creative Music Studio (CMS) was a premier study center for contemporary creative music during the 1970s and 1980s, based in Woodstock, New York.

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.

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Desperate Characters

Desperate Characters is a 1971 American drama film produced, written, and directed by Frank D. Gilroy, who based his screenplay on the 1970 novel of the same name by Paula Fox.

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DownBeat

DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Elvin Jones

Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era.

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Free improvisation

Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved.

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Gary Peacock

Gary Peacock (born May 12, 1935, in Burley, Idaho, United States) is an American jazz double-bassist.

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Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.

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Gil Evans

Ian Ernest Gilmore "Gil" Evans (born Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) was a Canadian jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader.

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Grace Kelly (musician)

Grace Kelly (born Grace Chung; May 15, 1992) is an American musician, singer, entertainer, songwriter and arranger.

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Iola, Wisconsin

Iola is a village in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jerry Wald

Jerry Wald (September 16, 1911 – July 13, 1962) was an American screenwriter and a producer of films and radio programs.

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Jim Hall (musician)

James Stanley Hall (December 4, 1930 – December 10, 2013) was an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger.

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Joey Baron

Bernard Joseph Baron (born June 26, 1955 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer who plays frequently with Bill Frisell and John Zorn.

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Lennie Tristano

Leonard Joseph "Lennie" Tristano (March 19, 1919 – November 18, 1978) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher of jazz improvisation.

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Live at Birdland (Lee Konitz album)

Live at Birdland is an album by saxophonist Lee Konitz, with pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Paul Motian.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Marshall Brown (musician)

Marshall Brown (1920–1983) was a jazz musician and educator.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Motion (Lee Konitz album)

Motion is an album by jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz, recorded in 1961 for Verve Records.

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Mundell Lowe

James Mundell Lowe (April 21, 1922 – December 2, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist who worked often in radio, television, and film, and as a session musician.

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Ornette Coleman

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer.

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Palmetto Records

Palmetto Records is an independent American jazz record company and label in New York City founded in 1990 by guitarist Matt Balitsaris.

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Paul Desmond

Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for composing that group's biggest hit, "Take Five".

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Paul Motian

Stephen Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer.

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Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City.

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Ray Nance

Ray Willis Nance (December 10, 1913, in Chicago – January 28, 1976, in New York City) was a jazz trumpeter, violinist and singer.

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RCA Red Seal Records

RCA Red Seal is a classical music record label founded in 1902 by Eldridge R. Johnson and currently owned by Sony Music.

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San Jose, California

San Jose (Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'), officially the City of San José, is an economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions

SOLOS: the jazz sessions is a 39 part television music profile/performance series produced in Canada by Original Spin Media.

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Sonny Dallas

Francis Dominic Joseph Dallas (October 27, 1931 – July 22, 2007), also known as Frank "Sonny" Dallas, was an American jazz bassist and singer.

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Stan Kenton

Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist.

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Subconscious-Lee

Subconscious-Lee is a jazz album by Lee Konitz although a few tracks were issued on 78rpm under Lennie Tristano's name.

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Teddy Powell

Teddy Powell (Teodoro Paolella) (March 1, 1905 – November 17, 1993) was an American jazz guitarist, composer, and big-band leader.

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Types of trombone

There are many different types of trombone.

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Verve Records

Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.

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Whirlwind Recordings

Whirlwind Recordings is a London, UK-based independent record label established in 2010 by Michael Janisch.

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Woodstock Jazz Festival

The Woodstock Jazz Festival was held in 1981 in Woodstock, New York.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Konitz

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