Lee Konitz News

There was a time when the alto saxophonist Lee Konitz wasn't a regular attraction on the New York club circuit.

If idiosyncrasy is on your holiday wish-list, this intergenerational sax pairing should fulfill nicely.

Oscar Feldman is ready, with Oscar e Familia , to put his own stamp on the alto saxophone.

Martin Longley also currently writes for the BBC Music, Brooklyn Vegan, Spannered and Stirrer websites, The Wire and Jazzwise magazines, and the Coventry Telegraph newspaper.

One of the fondest notions in jazz is that time is irrelevant. Everyones trying to get over the fixities of the clock to find the magic chutes of improvisational freedom, where you can slip into the breaks, as Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man, and look around.

Throughout the process of recording Balladeering , Danish guitarist Jakob Bro was followed closely by filmmaker Sune Blicher, who documented the sessions, which took place at the famous Avatar studios in New York, capturing the poetry of the music in pregnant images.

Clare Fischer is a pianist, composer and bandleader whose influences are wide-ranging--the post-World War II bebop and progressive jazz of pianist Bud Powell and saxophonist Lee Konitz, the dissonance flavorings of classical composers such as Bartok and Shostakovich, the tonal colors of Duke Ellington, and the rhythms of Latin jazz and bossa nova.

Jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader Antonio Ciacca will lead a new musical consortium, The Harlem Jazz Collective , in performances every Saturday night in December at Minton's Playhouse .

In the days when commercial television networks in the United States were still working their way toward the shallowness we know and love today and cable networks did not exist, there was an NBC-TV program called The Subject Is Jazz .

Peerless players as its members are, it's hard to imagine the Nuttree Quartet's standards-rooted swing bending the ears of a non-buff audience.

In 1975, the members of a musical appreciation society called The Danish Jazz Exchange clubbed together to bring their two favorite American improvisers, Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz , to their homeland.

Cool Jazz sax legend Lee Konitz stops by the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater tonight - in advance of his show,A Washington City Paper talked to Konitz about his upcoming projects, working with the contemporary jazz trio Minsarah ,A and Alan Greenspan .A Washington City Paper: How did you get hooked up with Minsarah? Lee Konitz : They invited me to ...

Thanks to Ted Scheinman for covering last week. Nov. 20 Local trumpeter Kenny Rittenhouse has aA straightahead, hard-bop approach, but always produces a probing, thoughtful sounda 'almost like a flugelhorna 'that distinguishes him in the U.S. Army Blues , the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra , and his own trios, quartets, and quintets that ...

CD Reviews: Playing Catch-up SOURCE: See! Hear! by Richard Kamins Perennial - Rob Garcia 4 - BJU Records) - Part of the allure of drummer/composer's Garcia 3rd CD as a leader was the anticipation of hearing the young saxophonist Noah Preminge r and pianist Dan Tepfer .

Saxophonist Lee Konitz turned 82 in October 2009 and he's still going as strong and as steady as ever.

Alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, winner of the 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award - our nation's highest award in jazz, will perform in concert with the award-winning Whitworth Jazz Ensemble on Saturday, Nov.

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There are few musicians who can reach back into their repertoire 60 years to find the right tune.

All About Jazz is celebrating Lee Konitz's birthday today! Lee Konitz Lee Konitz is an American jazz composer and saxophone player.

When putting together the Calgary Jazz Festival 2008 lineup, how do you top previously announced names like Dave Brubeck, Wynton Marsalis and Maceo Parker.