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Artist:	KONITZ, LEE
Title:	The Complete Remastered Recordings
Label:	BLACK SAINT/SOUL NOTE (ITALY)
Format:	5CD BOX
Price:	$36.00
Catalog #:	BXS 1011CD

...On Black Saint & Soul Note. "Generally considered one of the driving forces of cool jazz, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings. He was one of the few altoists to retain a distinctive sound in the '40s, when Charlie Parker exercised a tremendous influence on other players. Konitz's association with the cool jazz movement of the 1940s and '50s includes participation in Miles Davis' epochal Birth of the Cool sessions." Albums: Live At Laren, Ideal Scene, The New York Album, Zounds, Lunasea.

Artist:	KONITZ, LEE
Title:	Unaccompanied Live In Yokohama
Label:	PSF (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSF 083CD

"Altoist Lee Konitz toured Japan in Oct/'96 and he touched bass with musicians such as Keiji Haino, koto virtuoso Kazue Sawai, Kazuhisa Uchihashi of Altered States, Seiichi Yamamoto of the Boredoms, etc. This is Konitz's first solo disc in 22 years (and it also features him in a duo with Takayanagi pupil Kazuo Imai, who has a startling solo CD on PSF: How Will We Change? -- PSF 70). The first five tracks here are a 45 minute solo medley, which displays Konitz's unique structural sense and refined tone. Konitz is far more ignored in underground circles than he should be -- the last living reminder of the Tristano groups of the forties, and along with Eric Dolphy an example of the heights that individualistic, non-standard (read: non-free) improvisation can aspire to."

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