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Lee Konitz - Stereokonitz (1968/1998) [Cool, Post-Bop]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

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Lee Konitz - Stereokonitz (1968/1998) [Cool, Post-Bop]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

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Artist: Lee Konitz
Album: Stereokonitz
Genre: Cool, Post-Bop
Label: BMG France
Released: 1968/1998
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
  1. A Minor Blues (Konitz) - 4:39
  2. Five, Four and Three (Tommaso) - 3:34
  3. Komonia (Tommaso) - 4:46
  4. Midnight Mood (Tommaso) - 3:51
  5. Terre Lontane (Tommaso) - 5:27
  6. Take Seven (Tommaso) - 3:13
  7. Giovani d'Oggi (Tommaso) - 4:22
  8. Tune Down (Tommaso) - 4:52

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    Personnel:
  • Lee Konitz - alto saxophone (#3,5), varitone (#1,2,4,6-8), flute (#6)
  • Enrico Rava - trumpet
  • Franco D'Andrea - piano
  • Giovanni Tommaso - bass
  • Gege Munari - drums

Lee Konitz has had many opportunities to record with European artists over the decades, but this session is a bit unusual, in that all the compositions are by bassist Giovanni Tommaso and Konitz doesn't stick strictly to alto saxophone. Joining them are pianist Franco D'Andrea (with whom Konitz worked on a number of Philology CDs decades later), trumpeter Enrico Rava and drummer Gegé Munari. Tommaso's charts delve into bop and cool, with Konitz primarily playing the Varitone (a form of electronic saxophone that was experimented with briefly and abandoned by reed players in the late '60s), though he does play some alto sax and also makes a rare appearance on flute (doubling on it in "Take Seven"). While the music from this 1968 session is enjoyable, even though the sound quality of the Varitone pales when compared to a regular saxophone, this remains one of Lee Konitz's more obscure recordings from the '60s, even if this European LP was finally reissued on CD (again, only in Europe) three decades later.
Review by Ken Dryden

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