Lee Konitz News

 
Discover Jazz Festival kicks off June 1
Plattsburgh Press Republican
"Lee Konitz is one of the elder statesmen of jazz," Malina said. "He played with Miles Davis on the 'Birth of the Cool' back in the '50s. A saxophonist, he's played with all the greats. Lee is near 80 years old, and he's still going strong, ...


 
Ben Wendel and Dan Tepfer at Blue Whale
Los Angeles Times
The New York-based Tepfer, who spent time paired with Lee Konitz, should be a fine foil for Wendel's genre-blind tastes given Tepfer's 2010 album "Five Pedals Deep" and last year's ambitious reworking of Bach's "Goldberg Variations.

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34th Annual Copenhagen Jazz Festival: July 6 – 15, 2012.
Jazz Police (blog)
... while Teatret ved Sorte Hest will open its doors for a single night of avant-garde madness by John Cage performed by a special ensemble lead by Søren Kjærgaard, and Betty Nansen will offer concerts by Lee Konitz and Brian Blade Fellowship Band.

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Available starting July 30, 2012, through Sony Music's PopMarket.com and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Two releases put Mingus back on the front page: Let My Children Hear Music and Charles Mingus and Friends In Concert (a celebration with the full Mingus Jazz Workshop band plus guests Gerry Mulligan, Gene Ammons, Lee Konitz, James Moody, Randy Weston ...

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An evening of Jazz
El Dorado Times
He has performed and recorded with jazz groups led by Clare Fischer, Warne Marsh, Lee Konitz, Cal Tjader, Shelly Manne, Poncho Sanchez, Jimmy Rowles and Alan Boradbent. From the late 1960s to present Foster has been a member of several hundred live and ...


 
Forbes
The Virtues of Having Strange People Close By
Forbes
Gypsy Rose Lee, renowned for putting the tease into striptease, shared a house in Brooklyn Heights [7 Middagh St.] in the 1940s with other tenants including the poet WH Auden, author Carson McCullers, and the composer Benjamin Britten; all creative ...

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San Francisco Examiner
Brad Mehldau turns ivory into gold
San Francisco Examiner
He also has recorded and played with Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden and Lee Konitz, and his music has appeared in movies by Stanley Kubrick and Wim Wenders. What's most fascinating about Mehldau's style is his ability to transition from wildly ...