Lee konitz brad mehldau biography
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There’s a plague outside a-raging, they säga, so it’s hard to avoid thoughts of mortality. It’s starting to sink in, inom really am going to die someday. Like my parents did. Like my kids will. Like my grandkids will. I can’t say I’m comfortable with that thought, but inom am ansträngande to get used to it.
I just heard that my favorite jazz musician, Lee Konitz, has passed away from the corona virus at 92. inom can’t säga I was shocked. But, boy, am I sad. I know, he went ‘the way of the world’—got born, did some stuff, died, just like all of us.
Lee Konitz’ music has enriched my life significantly. His music is part of the room inom live in. For the past two years, I’ve been writing a novel and listening to Lee: one giant project for man, one insignificant scribble for mankind. But throughout, Lee has been for me a paragon of integrity, with his tenacious commitment to the very music itself—no concessions, no pandering, no shticks.
Then the corona virus got him. What can I say? I have no wo • American jazz musician (1927–2020) Lee Konitz Konitz performing in 2007 Musical artist Leon "Lee" Konitz (October 13, 1927 – April 15, 2020) was an American jazzalto saxophonist and composer. He performed successfully in a wide range of jazz styles, including bebop, cool jazz, and avant-garde jazz. Konitz's association with the cool jazz movement of the 1940s and 1950s includes participation in Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool sessions and his work with pianist Lennie Tristano. He was one of relatively few alto saxophonists of this era to retain a distinctive style, when Charlie Parker exerted a massive i • The first time I saw the pianist Brad Mehldau in person, playing with a pick-up rhythm section at the Pizza Express in the early 1990s, I was astonished by the intellectual and technical power of his playing, and by its emotional impact. The version of “Moon River” he played that night lives with me still. He was in his early twenties, still with boyish looks, and he sounded like the next thing in jazz piano. A couple of dozen years later I booked him and the tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman, his contemporary, colleague and friend, to play at JazzFest Berlin, where they gave a duo performance sensational in its virtuosity, interplay and, again, emotional depth. I had no real idea of the back-story to these two performances. Back in the ’90s, Mehldau was in the grip of heroin addiction. By the end of the decade he had freed himself from that prison without bars and found a new life. Shar
Lee Konitz
Birth name Leon Konitz Born (1927-10-13)October 13, 1927
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.Died April 15, 2020(2020-04-15) (aged 92)
New York City, U.S.Genres Jazz, cool jazz Occupation(s) Musician, composer Instrument Alto saxophone Years active 1945–2019 Labels RCA, Atlantic, Verve, Prestige, Palmetto, Whirlwind Posts tagged ‘Brad Mehldau’
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