Tranquility (Lee Konitz album)

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Tranquility
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Studio album by The Lee Konitz Quartet
Released 1957
Recorded October 22, 1957
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length34:05
Label Verve
MGV 8281
Lee Konitz chronology
Very Cool
(1957) Very Cool1957		Tranquility
(1957)		 An Image: Lee Konitz with Strings
(1958) An Image: Lee Konitz with Strings1958

Tranquility is an album by American jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz's Quartet recorded in 1957 and released on the Verve label. [1] [2]

Lee Konitz American jazz musician and composer

Lee Konitz is an American composer and alto saxophonist.

Verve Records American record label

Verve Records, also known as The Verve Music Group, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world's largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others. It absorbed the catalogues of Granz's earlier labels, Clef Records, founded in 1946, Norgran Records, founded in 1953, and material previously licensed to Mercury Records.

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Jason Ankeny of Allmusic states "crafted with startling precision and economy, Tranquility extols the virtues of mood and shape with Talmudic zeal, towering astride thought and expression. ...Rarely is music so profoundly cerebral also so deeply heartfelt". [3]

Track listing

  1. "Stephanie" (Lee Konitz) – 3:57
  2. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 3:12
  3. "People Will Say We're in Love" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 4:57
  4. "When You're Smiling" (Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay) – 3:48
  5. "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne) – 3:26
  6. "Lennie Bird" (Lennie Tristano) – 5:25
  7. "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 6:09
  8. "Jonquil" (Werner Bauer) – 3:09

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.

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Guitar fretted string instrument

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References

  1. ↑ Verve Records Catalog: 8200 series accessed June 3, 2016
  2. ↑ Lee Konitz discography accessed June 3, 2016
  3. 1 2 Ankeny, Jason. Tranquility – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved June 3, 2016.
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