The Lee Konitz Quintet

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The Lee Konitz Quintet
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Studio album by Lee Konitz Quintet
Released 1977
Recorded September 1977
Studio Downtown Sound Studio, NYC
Genre Jazz
Label Chiaroscuro
CR 166
Producer Hank O'Neal
Lee Konitz chronology
Pyramid
(1977)		The Lee Konitz Quintet
(1977)		 Lee Konitz Nonet
(1977)

The Lee Konitz Quintet (also called Affinity) is an album by American jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz recorded in 1977 and released on the Chiaroscuro label. [1] [2]

Lee Konitz American jazz musician and composer

Lee Konitz is an American composer and alto saxophonist.

Chiaroscuro Records is a jazz record company and label founded by Hank O'Neal in 1970. The label's name comes from the art term for the use of light and dark in a painting. O'Neal got the name from his friend and mentor Eddie Condon, a jazz musician who played in what were called Chiaroscuro Concerts in the 1930s. O'Neal also got the name from a store that sold only black and white dresses.

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Scott Yanow on Allmusic said "the two very complementary saxophonists take explorative solos on eight appealing chord changes, constantly challenging each other. Bob Mover would become much more individual within a few years but on this album it is very much like listening to a teacher and his prize student". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Lee Konitz except where noted.

  1. "Affinity" – 4:14
  2. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 8:26
  3. "Hi Beck" (Billy Bauer) – 6:25
  4. "Waltz for Debbie" (Bill Evans) – 3:13
  5. "Lennie-Bird" (Lennie Tristano) – 7:43
  6. "Solar" (Miles Davis) – 3:26
  7. "I Didn't Know About You" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 7:20
  8. "It's You" – 7:42

Personnel

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E♭, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

Bob Mover American musician

Bob (Robert) Mover is an alto, tenor and soprano jazz saxophonist and a vocalist. His father was a musician who played professionally including stints with the Charlie Spivak orchestra. He started playing the alto saxophone at age 13, studied with Phil Woods at a summer music camp, and took private lessons with Ira Sullivan.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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References

  1. ↑ Lee Konitz discography accessed November 24, 2016
  2. ↑ Di Filippo, R., Enciclopedia del Jazz: Lee Konitz accessed November 24, 2016
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. The Lee Konitz Quintet – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 120. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
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