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Motion Artist: Lee Konitz
Label: Verve Labels
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 044006551029
EAN: 0044006551029
ASIN: B000094T52


Release Date: 2003-06-10

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Listmania:

  1. Essential jazz 201
  2. Farewell Elvin (1927-2004), The Greatest Jazz Drummer

Tracks:

  1. I Remember You
  2. All Of Me
  3. Foolin Myself
  4. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
  5. I'll Remember April

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars I guess zebras look different to other zebras... .......2004-09-14

To my ears much of this album sounds the same in tempo, tone and approach. Its pleasant enough but the instrumentation: sax, drums and bass are just too limited in tone/timbre to provide much variety and the playing while very good is limited in dynamic or emotional range. The songs blend into one another in a foggy haze with little to set them apart from one another. Konitz is a motherf*cker on the sax though.

5 out of 5 stars Konitz at his finest.......2004-08-31

This is a classic example of Lee Konitz's approach to improvisation--extremely long, fluid lines, with a keen, insightful, relaxed feeling throughout. Elvin Jones, capable of matching his style to almost any context, is less explosive than you'd expect him to be, but you still hear him weaving over and around and behind the beat at times. It's interesting to compare this album to Sonny Rollins' classic 1958 Vanguard recording, also with just Jones and a bassist--we don't usually think of Rollins and Konitz as occupying the same territory, but these two CD's sound eerily similar at times.

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