Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh: Lee Konitz With Warne Marsh | Jazz review

(PWR)Lee Konitz, the octogenarian alto-saxophonist who came to fame playing on Miles Davis's 1949 Birth of the Cool sessions, is still devoted to the sound of surprise. Warne Marsh, the tenor saxist partnering him on these classic sessions from the late 1940s and mid-50s, died in 1987 – an improv purist largely neglected back then as an oblique and soft-toned performer unfashionably at odds with the fiercer free-jazz and fusion sax sounds dominating the jazz world. Marsh and Konitz took their ...

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