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Lee Konitz

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I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.


— Lee Konitz


#classical music #enjoy #i #jazz #listen

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.


— Lee Konitz


#i #i love #indian #indian music #love

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.


— Lee Konitz


#clarinet #double #i #instrument #main

I wish that person outside would stop coughing.


— Lee Konitz


#i #i wish #outside #person #stop

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.


— Lee Konitz


#heard #i #like #play #result

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.


— Lee Konitz


#complex #does #just #lester #most

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.


— Lee Konitz


#black #black and white #ego #involved #music

It's very demanding to make up your own music.


— Lee Konitz


#make #make up #music #own #up

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.


— Lee Konitz


#anything #call #cool #fine #formula

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.


— Lee Konitz


#better #customers #front #i #improvise






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Did you know about Lee Konitz?

In the early 1950s Konitz recorded and toured with Stan Kenton's orchestra but continued to record under his own name. The presence of Konitz and other white musicians in the group angered some black jazz players many of whom were unemployed at the time but Davis rebuffed their criticisms. Between 1945 and 1947 he worked off and on with Jerry Wald.

Konitz's association with the Cool Jazz movement of the 1940s and 50s includes participation in Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions and his work with Lennie Tristano came from the same period. Paul Desmond and especially Art Pepper were strongly influenced by Konitz.

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