LEE KONITZ LIVE AT THE HALF NOTE JAPAN MINI-LP CD NEW! Start Price USD 139.90 Current Price USD 139.90 Time Left 13 hours 36 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, May 09, 2008 End Time Friday, May 16, 2008 Location ACT See more about 'LEE KONITZ LIVE AT THE HALF NOTE JAPAN MINI-LP CD NEW!' Description LEE KONITZ LIVE AT THE HALF NOTE JAPAN LIMITED MINI-LP 2 CD EDITION NEW OUT OF PRINT VERY HARD TO GETJazz Masterpiece. Japanese Limited Cardboard Sleeve Edition. Beautiful Gatefold design replicating original vinyl album art work. DSD mastering from the original analog tapes offers superb sound quality.  Item is brand new complete with OBI. Quality silver pressing and top notch printing. In stock & ready to ship immediately upon cleared payment! Review (Thanks to N Dorward)This is an invaluable club recording of an unusual lineup: the two Tristanoite saxophonists Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh, the great pianist Bill Evans, the bassist Jimmy Garrison & Paul Motian on drums. The gig was in fact Tristano's, but because he taught Tuesday nights Evans was asked to fill in. The recording is an amateur one, but a good one: its only oddity is that in the absence of multiple mikes, the mike is physically shifted between the saxophones and piano before & after Evans' solos, the aural effect being rather like walking around the side of the bandstand. On the other hand, the recording superbly captures Garrison & Motian, who are both in incredibly good form--rarely has a professional live recording from the 1950s caught the bass so prominently.The music here is all mid- to up-tempo, with blistering takes on Tristano-school favourites like "You Stepped Out of a Dream" & "Lennie-Bird", as well as a few unusual choices ("Baby, Baby All the Time"!?). Part of the attraction of these discs is the palpable tension on the stand. Konitz is very clearly heading away from Tristano's influence: his tone is unpredictably smooth or rough, & his lines rhythmically uneven, punctuated by silences. It's far from the smooth, endlessly unspooling melodies he'd earlier favoured on recordings like the _Intuition_ sessions. It's perhaps because of this that Bill Evans seems uncomfortable with Konitz's approach: he doesn't comp behind Konitz on solos except on the final track, & generally Evans has a quiet night of it, perhaps feeling a bit of an intruder in what wasn't his gig. Marsh is in typically inventive form, & the heart of this disc isn't so much the solos (good as they are) as the rousing simultaneous improvisations by the two saxophonists--these sometimes go on for several choruses.This 2CD set is an ideal place to start for those who've yet to investigate the Tristanoite school of players: it's a great listen. This music is released here in this form for the first time (a severely edited form was released on a small label years ago--Tristano objected to Konitz's solos & edited them out!). It's a privilege to discover, years after, that this casual gig, recorded informally, is one of the great live discs of the 1950s. Track Listings1. PALO ALTO 2. HOW ABOUT YOU? 3. MY MELANCHOLY BABY 4. SCRAPPLE FROM THE APPLE 5. YOU STEPPED OUT OF A DREAM 6. 317 E 32ND 7. APRIL 8. IT'S YOU OR NO ONE 9. JUST FRIENDS 10. BABY,BABY ALL THE TIME 11. LENNIE-BIRD 12. SUBCONSCIOUS-LEEArtists: Lee KonitzGenre: Jazz Release Date: 2007Catalogue Number: UCCV-9326Label: UniversalFormat: 2 X Audio CDCondition: New ABOUT USOur mission statement is to always offer the highest level of service and customer satisfaction. We only sell original genuine CD & DVD pressings that retain their full resale value. We never deal in cheap inferior pressings, CDR copies or unofficial bootlegs. At The Music Specialist you can always purchase with 100% confidence that you are buying the genuine article. SHIPPINGAll our small orders are despatched by Airmail with Postal Registration & Delivery Confirmation. If Delivery Confirmation is unavailable to your country we will let you know. (Please note that if Delivery Confirmation is unavailable to your country, we will not be responsible for any lost items). 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