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Lee Konitz

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Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.


— Lee Konitz


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Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.


— Lee Konitz


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Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.


— Lee Konitz


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Sound is the first thing that we tune into.


— Lee Konitz


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We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.


— Lee Konitz


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You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.


— Lee Konitz


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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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