Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz
Lee Konitzis an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist who was born in Chicago, Illinois...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth13 October 1927
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
mean play names
Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.
thinking people way
Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.
thinking periods coltrane
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
guy way hung
We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.
trying special way
You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.
music player vocabulary
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.