Lee Konitz Very Cool + Tranquility(1957)
Tracks
1 Sunflower (Ferrara) 8:06
2 Stairway to the Stars (Malneck, Parish, Signorelli) 5:24
3 Movin' Around (Ferrara) 7:49
4 Kary's Trance (Konitz) 7:13
5 Crazy She Calls Me (Caesar, Kahn, Meyer) 7:26
6 Billie's Bounce (Parker) 6:13
7 Stephanie (Konitz) 3:56
8 Memories of You (Blake, Razaf) 3:12
9 People Will Say We're in Love (Hammerstein II, Rogers) 4:56
10 When You're Smiling (Fisher, Goodwin, Shay) 3:48
11 Sunday (Cohn, Krueger, Miller, Styne) 3:26
12 Lennie Bird (Tristano) 5:25
13 The Nearness of You (Carmichael, Washington) 6:09
14 Jonquil (Bauer) 3:10
Personnel
[#1-6] The Lee Konitz Quintet - Very Cool
Lee Konitz - as
Don Ferrara - tp
Sal Mosca - p
Pete Ind - b
Shadow Wilson - dr
Recorded in NYC, May 5, 1957.
[#7-14] The Lee Konitz Quartet - Tranquility
Lee Konitz - as
Billy Bauer - g
Henry Grimes - b
Dave Bailey - dr
Recorded in NYC, October 22, 1957
Lee Konitz was, by 1957, firmly established as an individualist capable of forging his path away from the alleged West Coast Cool School. So the reissued titles included on this single CD - Very Cool and Tranquility - could be deceiving. Flying away from peers Paul Desmond and Art Pepper, Konitz on his trusty alto sax braved the waters of third stream and early creative improvising, which would hold him in good stead for the remainder of his career. Those inferences are clearly imbued on this reissue. The two bands heard here are quite distinct, as the witty and mostly wonderful Very Cool sessions feature underappreciated trumpeter Don Ferrara in a quintet with Konitz, doing standards, the Konitz composition "Kary's Trance" and two of Ferrara's tunes. On the Tranquility sides, the trumpet and piano leave, replaced by guitarist Billy Bauer, another unsung jazz giant. Heavyweights Henry Grimes on bass and drummer Dave Bailey prove one of the best units Konitz ever fronted. They do more standards, a single original by Bauer or Konitz, and one from their collective mentor, Lennie Tristano. This CD is a marvelous time capsule revealing much about Konitz, this pivot point time period, and the late-50's state of modern, progressive mainstream hard to post-bop jazz
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