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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lee Konitz

Published: 2012-10-13
Lee Konitz

All About Jazz is celebrating Lee Konitz's birthday today!

Konitz is sometimes regarded as the preeminent cool jazz saxophonist, because he performed and recorded with Claude Thornhill, Lennie Tristano (both often cited as important cool jazz proponents of the mid 1940s), and with Miles Davis on his epochal Birth of the Cool, which gave the form its name... Read more.

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