View basket “Saturday Night In San Francisco (SACD)” has been added to your basket. Motion Lee Konitz SKU: VERVEV68399 Barcode: 4260019712875 34.00 £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner Released Date: 11th October 2006 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Three musicians – five standards – 1961 – Motion! You can’t get much more efficiency than that! But that was always one of Lee Konitz’s greatest strengths. Back in the 50s and 60s, the man from Chicago determined the course of European jazz perhaps more than anyone else and has remained a shining example right up to the present day. His talent for improvisation – free after Johann Sebastian Bach – and his clear melodic lines have fascinated and influenced numerous musicians ever since. In this recording, made in August 1961, the fast tempi are a big surprise but the trio finds itself in safe hands with Elvin Jones’s drive. The drummer found the time to offer his own special beat elsewhere between his appearances with the John Coltrane Quartet in Newport and performances with the Village Vanguard in November. The bass player Sonny Dallas, who like Lee Konitz had learned a great deal from Lennie Tristano, kept the music pulsating with the precision of a metronome throughout all the improvisations, and his almost mechanical precision made him an ideal partner. All five numbers are old friends and often heard – but surely never as eloquently and interestingly interpreted as in this recording. In 1995, Lee Konitz told the present writer that he was planning a new session with Elvin Jones. This idea came to nothing due to the opposition of Elvin’s wife and later the drummer’s death. And so these numbers from 1961 remain the only recording of this extraordinary trio and as such constitute an important part of jazz history. Recording: August 1961 in New York City by Dick Olmstead Production: Norman Granz Artist Lee Konitz Genre Jazz Label Speakers Corner Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country Germany Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Lee Konitz and more from Jazz View Product Quick View Lee Konitz Tenorlee Jazz | Candid Records | 180g, 1LP Released 1st December 2023 £26.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Lee Konitz Tenorlee £26.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Candid Records SKU: LPCND33221 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 1st December 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Lee Konitz Alone Together Jazz | Blue Note | 180g, 2LP Released 13th December 2019 £25.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Lee Konitz Alone Together £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 0822901 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 13th December 2019 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Keith Jarrett/Jan Garbarek Luminessence Jazz | ECM | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 1st March 2024 £31.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Keith Jarrett/Jan Garbarek Luminessence £31.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 5523885 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 1st March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out Takes Jazz | Wienerworld | 1LP Released 26th February 2021 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out Takes £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Wienerworld SKU: BELP20200901 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th February 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers The Witch Doctor Jazz | Blue Note Tone Poet | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 4th June 2021 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers The Witch Doctor £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note Tone Poet SKU: 3514860 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 4th June 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Charlie Parker The Immortal Charlie Parker Jazz | Doxy | 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released 21st January 2013 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Charlie Parker The Immortal Charlie Parker £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Doxy SKU: DOK218LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 21st January 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Manuel Mota & David Grubbs Lacrau Jazz | Blue Chopsticks | 1LP Released 22nd June 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Manuel Mota & David Grubbs Lacrau £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Chopsticks SKU: BC31 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wayne Shorter Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival Jazz | Candid Records | 2LP Released 2nd December 2022 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wayne Shorter Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival £32.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Candid Records SKU: CLP30301 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 2nd December 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Art Pepper Plus Eleven Jazz | Waxtime | 180g, 1LP Released 10th September 2012 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Art Pepper Plus Eleven £17.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Waxtime SKU: LP771805 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th September 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano Arctic Riff Jazz | ECM | 2LP Released 26th June 2020 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano Arctic Riff £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 0879959 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 26th June 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wolfgang Haffner Kind of Tango Jazz | ACT | 1LP Released 28th February 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wolfgang Haffner Kind of Tango £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ACT SKU: ACTLP9899-1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th February 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mikael Máni Guitar Poetry Jazz | ACT | 1LP Released 29th March 2024 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mikael Máni Guitar Poetry £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ACT SKU: ACTLP9984-1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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