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| groups & projects | sound-lee! plays the music of lee konitz |
Order CD "Sound-Lee plays the music of Lee Konitz" (Geestgronden 21) at www.geestgronden.com Management: Download the picture below in high resolution (JPEG, 375 KB)
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• jd solo • tone dialing • sound-lee! • duo dijkstra-hollenbeck • flatlands collective • talking pictures and jd • drones in the bones • trio jd |
guus janssen - piano "They missed the point - but made another one!" - Lee Konitz Dutch quartet Sound-Lee! open-mindedly interprets the early repertoire of American alto saxophonist Lee Konitz. Konitz and tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh were the sounding breath of the lucid Tristano School, initiated by New York composer and pianist Lennie Tristano in the early nineteen-fifties. The grace and emotional reserve of Konitz's pieces from the 1948-58 period are Sound-Lee!’s strongest source of musical inspiration. The coolness of these compositions, along with their complex melodic lines, suggestive harmonic textures, and rhythmical finesse, offer fertile ground for the quartet’s contrapuntal improvisations. Sound-Lee! acts like a troupe of cord-dancers trying to keep themselves in balance as they collectively interpret Konitz's material. If this delicate rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic balance is upset for any reason, Sound-Lee! invents ad hoc solutions – and takes risks – to keep the tune going in a personal and unpredictable way. Sound-Lee!’s creative impulses with Konitz’s schemes avoid the formal reconstruction of the historical cool-jazz style. Instead Sound-Lee! breathes new life into the pure improvisational intentions of the Tristano School. photo: Nico Bodewes |
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