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| 1. | Prologue
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| 2. | Le Tue Mani
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| 3. | Io E Te da Soli
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| 4. | Parlami d'Amore Mariu'
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| 5. | O Sole Mio
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| 6. | Tornerai
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| 7. | Mi Sono Innamorato Di Te
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| 8. | Ti Voglio Tanto Bene
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| 9. | Ma l'Amore No
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| 10. | Il Poeta
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| 11. | Mai
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| 12. | Non Dimenticar
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| 13. | Il Tuo Amore
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| 14. | Epilogue
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| 15. | Arrivederci
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Jazz / Ballads, Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz
Lee Konitz - Sax (Alto)
Stefano Battaglia - Piano
Gennaro Carone Mastering
Giancarlo Barigozzi Engineer
Paolo Piangiarelli Producer
Stefano Galvani Photography
Can you even imagine a better pairing for a piano saxophone duet of Italian ballads? This highly unusual program, recorded while Konitz was on tour in 1993, is easily one of the artist's finest outings since the late 1970s. Battaglia is the king of lyrical jazz piano in Italy, and is particularly suited to Konitz's arid, whispering tone, with his gorgeous augmented chord voicings and shimmering glissando in the middle and upper registers. The material comes from both jazz and pop sources, and is well suited to harmonic pairing down with Konitz assuming the line and Battaglia becoming both rhythm and lead section accompaniment. But Konitz does more than just nuance melodies; he imbues every bar with a jazzmans' sense of timing and verve. His phrasing, slow and elongated, takes tension out of a piece as he sings it through the bell of the horn. Konitz also looks into the elemental structures of these tunes for the overlooked, the hidden accent a particular harmonic sequence turns on, and then stresses it just enough to allow Battaglia to move outside the tune and into the sonant world for clues, glues, and answers. This is as beautiful a collection of ballads as you are likely to find anywhere -- even if you don't know any of them. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
Lee Konitz
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Oct 13, 1927 in Chicago, IL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, Cool, Post-Bop
One of the most individual of all altoists (and one of the few in the 1950s who did not sound like a cousin of Charlie Parker), the cool-toned Lee Konitz has always had a strong musical curiosity that has led him to consistently take chances and stretch himself, usually quite successfully. Early on he studied clarinet, switched to alto, and played with Jerry Wald. Konitz gained some attention for his solos with Claude Thornhill's Orchestra (1947). He began studying with Lennie Tristano, who had a big influence on his conception and approach to improvising. Konitz was with Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool Nonet during their one gig and their Capitol recordings (1948-1950) and recorded with Lennie Tristano's innovative sextet (1949), including the first two free improvisations ever documented. Konitz blended very well with Warne Marsh's tenor (their unisons on "Wow" are miraculous) and would have several reunions with both Tristano and Marsh through the years, but he was also interested in finding his own way; by the early '50s he started breaking away from the Tristano school. Konitz toured Scandinavia (1951), where his cool sound was influential, and he fit in surprisingly well with Stan Kenton's Orchestra (1952-1954), being featured on many charts by Bill Holman and Bill Russo. Konitz was primarily a leader from that point on. He almost retired from music in the early '60s but re-emerged a few years later. His recordings have ranged from cool bop to thoughtful free improvisations, and his Milestone set of Duets (1967) is a classic. In the late '70s Konitz led a notable nonet and in 1992 he won the prestigious Jazzpar Prize. He kept a busy release schedule throughout the '90s and dabbled in the world of classical with 2000's French Impressionist Music from the Turn of the Twentieth Century. The Mark Masters Ensemble joined him for 2004's One Day with Lee. And in 2007 he recorded Portology with the Ohad Talmor Big Band. He has recorded on soprano and tenor but has mostly stuck to his distinctive alto.Konitz has led consistently stimulating sessions for many labels, including Prestige, Dragon, Pacific Jazz, Vogue, Storyville, Atlantic, Verve, Wave, Milestone, MPS, Polydor, Bellaphon, SteepleChase, Sonet, Groove Merchant, Roulette, Progressive, Choice, IAI, Chiaroscuro, Circle, Black Lion, Soul Note, Storyville, Evidence, and Philogy.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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