Lee Konitz/Peter Ind | Jazz review

606 Club, LondonLee Konitz, the 82-year-old ­Chicagoan alto saxophonist who played on Miles Davis's classic Birth of the Cool recordings back in 1949, was one of the few players of his era to be inspired by Charlie Parker without trying to clone him. But if he remains a master of the method, Konitz celebrates it as a ­dedicated in-the-moment ­improviser, not as the inflexible curator of an ­antique style.Konitz's partner was the UK's Peter Ind, the double-bassist who studied alongsid...

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