Research Catalog

Title

Lee Konitz : conversations on the improviser's art / Andy Hamilton.

Author

Hamilton, Andy, 1957-

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Konitz, Lee

Description

xxv, 284 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., music; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Jazz perspectives

Uniform Title

Jazz perspectives (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

Subject

• Jazz > History and criticism
• Jazz musicians > United States > Interviews
• Konitz, Lee > Interviews
• Musicians > Interviews
• Saxophonists > United States > Interviews

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Interviews

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-270) and index.
• Includes discography: p. 263-266.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Early life and career -- Formative influences : Lennie Tristano, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young -- Working with Tristano -- Early collaborators : Miles Davis and Warne Marsh -- The 1950s : Stan Kenton and early projects as leader -- The art of improvisation -- The 1960s : Motion -- The instrument -- The 1970s -- The material : standards, blues, and free -- The 1980s to the present.

ISBN

• 9780472115877 (alk. paper)
• 0472115871 (alk. paper)
• 9780472032174 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0472032178 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006032064

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library