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Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz

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Lee Konitz. Composer: Verzweifelte Menschen. Internationally renowned innovative jazz musician, born in Chicago to Jewish immigrant parents of Austrian and Russian descent. Konitz began playing clarinet from the age of eleven, later switching to tenor and alto saxophone. First coming to prominence with the swing bands of Jerry Wald (1945-47) and Claude Thornhill (1948), he also gigged with Miles Davis and -- at the same time -- studied and recorded...

Lee Konitz. Composer: Verzweifelte Menschen. Internationally renowned innovative jazz musician, born in Chicago to Jewish immigrant parents of Austrian and Russian descent. Konitz began playing clarinet from the age of eleven, later switching to tenor and alto saxophone. First coming to prominence with the swing bands of Jerry Wald (1945-47) and Claude Thornhill (1948), he also gigged with Miles Davis and -- at the same time -- studied and recorded...

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