GRACEfulLEE

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GRACEfulLEE
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Studio album by
Grace Kelly and Lee Konitz
Released2008
Genre Jazz
Length54:10
Label Pazz Productions
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GRACEfulLEE is an album by American jazz saxophonists Grace Kelly and Lee Konitz. It was released on July 8, 2008.

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GRACEfulLEE is Kelly's fourth studio album. It has received positive reviews from music critics, [2] [3] [4] including a four and a half star review from Down Beat Magazine in November 2008. [5] Down Beat went on to name the album as one of the "Best CDs of 2008" in January 2009 [6] and then one of the "Best CDs of the 2000s the next year. [7] The cover of this album made a brief appearance in the television series, Bosch, produced by Amazon Studios, recreating a scene from the novel The Black Box (A Harry Bosch Book) by Michael Connelly. [8] when Harry Bosch tries to interest his daughter in Jazz by noting some of the younger artists of the genre.

The cross-generation collaboration on this album was duly noted by John Fordham of the Guardian in his four-star review:"Those who have heard Konitz's unquenchably inventive, tirelessly curious improvising will relish his cliche-purged style. But the formidable Kelly's grasp of that approach, and twisting of it with wayward diversions and rhythmic surprises, brings the sometimes laconic Konitz to the boil." [9] It is also solidified with comments on [10]

Kelly's collaboration with Lee Konitz continued into 2014, appearing as a guest with the Quartet onstage at the 60th Newport Jazz Festival of that year. [11]

Track listing

  1. "Subconscious Lee" – 8:54
  2. "Just Friends" – 3:44
  3. "GRACEfulLEE" – 8:28
  4. "There Is No Greater Love" – 6:02
  5. "Alone Together" – 2:26
  6. "Buzzing Around" – 1:12
  7. "Thingin'" – 9:39
  8. "Call of the Spirits" – 4:09
  9. "NY at Noon" – 1:50

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Gelly, Dave (21 February 2010). "Grace Kelly & Lee Konitz: GRACEfulLEE". Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  3. ↑ McClenechan, Dan (10 July 2008). "Grace Kelly and Lee Konitz: GRACEfulLEE (2008)". All About Jazz. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  4. ↑ Dryden, Ken (14 November 2008). "Grace Kelly: GRACEfulLEE (2008)". All About Jazz. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  5. ↑ "Grace Kelly/Lee Konitz: GRACEfulLEE". DownBeat. Maher Publications. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Best CDs of 2008". DownBeat. Maher Publications. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Best CDs of 2000s" (PDF). DownBeat. Maher Publications. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  8. ↑ Connelly, Michael (November 2012). The Black Box (First ed.). New York: Little Brown and Company. p. 242. ISBN   978-0-316-06943-4.
  9. ↑ Fordham, John (25 February 2010). "Lee Konitz/Grace Kelly GRACEfulLEE". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy". www.gracekellymusic.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ↑ Chinen, Nate (16 November 2014). "The Gig: Lee Konitz". JazzTimes. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
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