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Lee Konitz

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 67: The Legacy of Jimmy Giuffre and Lennie Tristano (1961 – 1969)

    Jun 27th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Barry Altschul, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Giuffre, Lee Konitz, Paul Bley, Steve Swallow, Warne Marsh

    Paul Bley – Jimmy Giuffre – Steve Swallow Clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre and pianist Lennie Tristano were heavily influential in the musical explorations of the 1960s. The Jimmy Giuffre Trio recorded a series of records in the early 1960s now seen as significant milestones in improvisational music, although they made no commercial impact at the time. […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 34: Miles and Friends – The “Birth” of the Cool (1947 – 1950)

    Oct 20th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Birth of the Cool, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, JJ Johnson, John Lewis, Kai winding, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, Miles Davis, MJQ, Modern Jazz Quartet

    Miles Davis – Lennie Tristano – Gerry Mulligan The torrid pace of bebop improvisations reached a point in the late 1940s that prompted a musical reconsideration and Miles Davis was there at the conception. Davis had been with the Charlie Parker Quintet since 1945, when he began to woodshed with composer/arrangers John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 33: Proto-Cool – Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz (1946 – 1955)

    Oct 13th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: jazz at 100, Lee Konitz, Lennie Tristano, Warne Marsh

    Lennie Tristano Pianist Lennie Tristano was a very visible participant in the modern jazz innovations of the mid-1940s through the early 1950s, winning polls and participating in all-star jam sessions. Yet his music was always a little outside the mainstream and was increasingly so as he began to experiment with fully improvised performances by 1947. […]

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