Lee Konitz discography

Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan in Aarhus, Denmark 2015

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This is the discography for American jazz musician Lee Konitz.^[1][2]

Albums[]

As leader/co-leader[]

• 1949–50: Lee Konitz and Stan Getz The New Sounds (10", Prestige)
• 1949–50: Subconscious-Lee (Prestige, 1949–50) aka Lee Konitz with Tristano, Marsh and Bauer
• 1951: The New Sounds with Miles Davis (10", Prestige) - reissued on Conception in 1956)
• 1953: Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Pacific Jazz) with Gerry Mulligan
• 1954: Lee Konitz Plays (Vogue)
• 1954: Lee Konitz at Storyville (Storyville)
• 1954: Konitz (Storyville)
• 1954: Lee Konitz in Harvard Square (Storyville)
• 1955: Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh (Atlantic)
• 1956: Lee Konitz featuring Hans Koller, Lars Gullin, Roland Kovac (Swingtime)
• 1956: Inside Hi-Fi (Atlantic)
• 1957: The Real Lee Konitz (Atlantic)
• 1957: Very Cool (Verve)
• 1957: Tranquility (Verve)
• 1958: An Image: Lee Konitz with Strings (Verve)
• 1959: Live at the Half Note (Verve)
• 1959: Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre (Verve) with Jimmy Giuffre
• 1959: You and Lee (Verve) arranged by Jimmy Giuffre
• 1961: Motion (Verve)
• 1965: Trio and Quartet (Magnetic)
• 1966: Modern Jazz Compositions from Haiti (Impulse!)
• 1967: The Lee Konitz Duets (Milestone)
• 1968: Alto Summit (MPS) with Pony Poindexter, Phil Woods and Leo Wright
• 1968: European Episode (Campi)
• 1968: Impressive Rome (Campi)
• 1968: Stereokonitz (RCA)
• 1969: Peacemeal (Milestone)
• 1971: Spirits (Milestone)
• 1973: Altissimo with Gary Bartz, Jackie McLean and Charlie Mariano (Philips)
• 1974: In Concert with Chet Baker (India Navigation)
• 1974: Jazz à Juan (SteepleChase)
• 1974: I Concentrate on You: A Tribute to Cole Porter with Red Mitchell (SteepleChase)
• 1974: Lone-Lee (SteepleChase)
• 1974: Satori (Milestone)
• 1975: Oleo (Sonet)
• 1975: Chicago 'n All That Jazz (Groove Merchant)
• 1975: Windows with Hal Galper (SteepleChase)
• 1975: Warne Marsh Quintet: Jazz Exchange Vol. 1 with Warne Marsh (Storyville)
• 1975: Live at the Montmartre Club: Jazz Exchange Vol. 2 with Warne Marsh (Storyville)
• 1975: Warne Marsh Lee Konitz: Jazz Exchange Vol. 3 with Warne Marsh (Storyville, 1975 [1985])
• 1976: Jazz a Confronto 32 (Horo)
• 1976: Lee Konitz Meets Warne Marsh Again (Pausa) with Warne Marsh
• 1976: The Lee Konitz Nonet (Roulette)
• 1976: Figure & Spirit (Progressive)
• 1977: Pyramid with Paul Bley and Bill Connor (Improvising Artists)
• 1977: The Lee Konitz Quintet (Chiaroscuro)
• 1977: Lee Konitz Nonet (Chiaroscuro)
• 1977: French Concert with the Shelly Manne Quartet (Galaxy)
• 1977: Duplicity with Martial Solal (Horo)
• 1977–78: Tenorlee (Choice)
• 1979: Yes, Yes, Nonet (SteepleChase)
• 1979: Four Keys with Martial Solal, John Scofield and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (MPS)
• 1979: Live at Laren (Soul Note)
• 1979: Seasons Change with Karl Berger (Circle)
• 1980: Heroes with Gil Evans (Verve)
• 1980: Anti-Heroes with Gil Evans (Verve)
• 1955-80: From Newport to Nice (Philology)
• 1980: Live at the Berlin Jazz Days 1980 with Martial Solal (MPS)
• 1981: Live in Genoa 1981 with Art Farmer (Tramonti)
• 1982: High Jingo (Atlas)
• 1982: Toot Sweet with Michael Petrucciani (Owl)
• 1983: Dovetail (Sunnyside)
• 1983: Art of the Duo with Albert Mangelsdorff (Enja)
• 1983: Glad, Koonix! (Dragon)
• 1983: Dedicated to Lee with Lars Sjösten (Dragon)
• 1983: Star Eyes, Hamburg 1983 with Martial Solal (HatOLOGY)
• 1984: Wild as Springtime (GFM)
• 1986: Medium Rare (Label Bleu)
• 1986: Ideal Scene (Soul Note)
• 1987: The New York Album (Soul Note)
• 1988: The Space Jazz Trio with Enrico Pieranunzi Blew (Philology)
• 1988: Solitudes (Philology)
• 1989: In Rio (MA)
• 1989: Konitz in Denmark (Rightone)
• 1988: Round and Round (Music Masters)
• 1988: Saxophone Dreams with Netherlands Metropole Orchestra (Koch)
• 1988-89: Frank-Lee Speaking (West Wind)
• 1990: Zounds (Soul Note)
• 1990: Once Upon a Line (Musidisc)
• 1990: Swiss Kiss (TCB)
• 1990: S'Nice with Frank Wunsch (Nabel)
• 1991: Lullaby of Birdland (Candid)
• 1992: Lunasea with Peggy Stern (Soul Note)
• 1992: Unleemited with Kenny Werner (Owl)
• 1992: Leewise with the Jazzpar All Star Nonet (Storyville)
• 1992: Jazz Nocturne (Evidence)
• 1992: Lee Konitz Meets Don Friedman with Don Friedman (Camerata)
• 1992: So Many Stars (Philology)
• 1992: The Jobim Collection (Philology)
• 1993: Very Fool with Massimo Salvagnini Quartet (High Tide)
• 1993: A Venezia with Orchestra Il Suono Improvviso (Philology)
• 1993: Free with Lee (Philology)
• 1993: Italian Ballads, Volume 1 with Stefano Battaglia (Philology)
• 1993: Speakin' Lowly with Renato Sellani (Philology)
• 1993: All the Way (The Soft Way) with Renato Sellani (Philology)
• 1993: Rhapsody (Evidence)
• 1993: Rhapsody II (Evidence)
• 1994: We Thought About Duke with Franz Koglmann (HatART)
• 1995: Haiku (Nabel)
• 1995: Live with Jeanfrançois Prins Trio (GAM Records)
• 1995: Steps Towards a Dream with John Pål Inderberg (Odin)
• 1995: Brazilian Rhapsody (Music Masters)
• 1995: Breaths and Whispers (with Umberto Petrin Philology)
• 1995: Thingin' (HatOLOGY) with Don Friedman and Attila Zoller
• 1995: The Frankfurt Concert (West Wind) with Frank Wunsch
• 1996: Body and Soul (Camerata)
• 1996: It's You (SteepleChase)
• 1996: Strings for Holiday: A Tribute to Billie Holiday (Enja)
• 1996: Inside Cole Porter (Philology)
• 1996: Inside Rogers (Philology)
• 1996: Dearly Beloved (SteepleChase)
• 1996: Unaccompanied Live in Yokohama (PSF)
• 1996: Alone Together (Blue Note)
• 1997: Self Portrait (Philology)
• 1997: L'Age Mur with Enrico Rava (Philology)
• 1997: Dig Dug Dog (Columbia)
• 1997: Out of Nowhere with Paul Bley (SteepleChase)
• 1997: RichLee! with Rich Perry (SteepleChase)
• 1998: Dialogues (Challenge)
• 1996–7: Another Shade of Blue (Blue Note)
• 1998: Subconscious-Lee with Johannes Schaedlich (Summit)
• 1999: Three Guys with Steve Swallow and Paul Motian (Enja)
• 1998: Tender Lee (For Chet) (Philology)
• 1999: Sound of Surprise (RCA Victor)
• 1999: Dig-It with Ted Brown (SteepleChase)
• 1999: Pride (SteepleChase)
• 1999: Live at Birdland Neuberg with Kenny Wheeler Quartet (Double Moon)
• 2000: Lee Konitz & the Axis String Quartet Play French Impressionist Music from the Turn of the 20th Century with the Axis Quartet (Palmetto)
• 2000: Lee Konitz at the New Mississippi Jazz Club (Philology)
• 2000: Some New Stuff (DIW)
• 2000: Live-Lee with Alan Broadbent (Milestone)
• 2000: More Live-Lee with Alan Broadbent (Milestone)
• 2000: Parallels (Chesky)
• 2003: A Day in Florence (Philology)
• 2004: BargaLee (Philology)
• 2004: Sound-Lee (Membran)
• 2004: One Day with Lee (Capri)
• 2004: Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor String Project: Inventions (OmniTone)
• 2005: New Nonet (OmniTone)
• 2006: Organic-Lee with (SteepleChase)
• 2006: Infant eyes. The Music of Wayne Shorter with Claudio Fasoli, Paolo Birro, Ares Tavolazzi, Stefano Bagnoli:(Philology)
• 2006: Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor Big Band: Portology (OmniTone)
• 2008: GRACEfulLEE with Grace Kelly (Pazz)
• 2008: Deep Lee with Minsarah (Enja)
• 2009: Duos with Lee with Dan Tepfer (Sunnyside)
• 2009: Live at the Village Vanguard (Enja)
• 2011: Live at Birdland with Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian (ECM)
• 2012: with Bill Frisell, Gary Peacock and Joey Baron (HighNote)
• 2013: Costumes Are Mandatory with Ethan Iverson, Larry Grenadier and Jorge Rossy (HighNote)
• 2014: First Meeting: Live in London, Volume 1 with Dan Tepfer/Michael Janisch/Jeff Williams (Whirlwind)
• 2017: Frescalalto with Kenny Barron/Peter Washington/Kenny Washington (Impulse!)
• 2018: Decade with Dan Tepfer (Verve)
• 2018: Prisma (QFTF)

As sideman[]

With Chick Corea

• Woodstock Jazz Festival 1 (Douglas Music, 1981 [1997]) with
• (Douglas Music, 1981 [1997]) with Anthony Braxton, Pat Metheney, Jack DeJohnette, and Miroslav Vitous

With Miles Davis

• The Miles Davis Tuba Band (w/ Lennie Tristano) – Why Do I Love You? Rare Broadcasts 1947–48 (Natasha, 1993)
• Birth of the Cool (Capitol, 1949)
• Miles Ahead (1957)

With Lennie Tristano

• Crosscurrents (Capitol, 1949 [1972], reissued as part of Intuition [1996])
• Lennie Tristano (Atlantic, 1956)

With Stan Kenton

• City of Glass (Capitol, 1951)
• New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm (Capitol, 1952)
• Popular Favorites by Stan Kenton (Capitol, 1953)
• Sketches on Standards (Capitol, 1953)
• This Modern World (Capitol, 1953)
• Portraits on Standards (Capitol, 1953)
• The Kenton Era (Capitol, 1940–54, [1955])

With Gerry Mulligan

• The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (World Pacific, 1957)

With others

• 1947: Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra: The Uncollected Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra (Hindsight)
• 1951: Ralph Burns and His Orchestra: Free Forms
• 1956: Metronome All-Stars: Metronome All-Stars 1956 (Clef)
• 1957: Gil Evans: Gil Evans & Ten (Prestige)
• 1959: Warne Marsh: The Art of Improvising (Revelation, 1974)
• 1966: Dave Pike: The Doors of Perception (Vortex, 1970)
• 1968: Attila Zoller: Zo-Ko-Ma (MPS)
• 1972: Charles Mingus: Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (Columbia)
• 1974: Dave Brubeck: All The Things We Are (Atlantic)
• 1975: Andrew Hill: Spiral (Arista)
• 1975: Warne Marsh Quintet: Jazz Exchange (Storyville)
• 1975: Hal Galper: Windows (SteepleChase)
• 1977: Bill Evans: Crosscurrents (Fantasy)
• 1980: Martial Solal: Live at the Berlin Jazz Days (MPS)
• 1983: Martial Solal: Star Eyes, Hamburg 1983 (HatOLOGY)
• 1984: Max Roach: It's Christmas Again (Soul Note)
• 1990: Frank Wunsch Quartet: S'Nice (Nabel)
• 1991: Lars Sjosten Quartet: Friends (Dragon)
• 1993: Renato Sellani: Speakin' Lowly, Volume 1 (Philology)
• 1994: Orchestra Il Suono Improvviso: A Venezia (Philology)
• 1995: Umberto Petrin: Breaths and Whispers (Homage to Alexander Scriabin) (Philology)
• 1995: John Pl Indreberg: Step Towards a Dream (Odin)
• 1995: Don Friedman with Attila Zoller: Thingin' (HatOLOGY)
• 1997: Kenny Wheeler: Angel Song (ECM)
• 1998: Gerry Mulligan All-Star Tribute Band: Thank You, Gerry! ()
• 1998: Diane Hubka: Haven't We Met? (Challenge)
• 1999: Jeanfrançois Prins: All Around Town (TCB)
• 2000: The Axis Quartet: Play French Impressionist Music from the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Palmetto)
• 2000: Rich Perry: RichLee! (SteepleChase)
• 2001: Franco D'Andrea: Inside Rodgers (Philology)
• 2001: Renato Sellani: Minority, Volume 2: All the Way (The Soft Ways) (Philology)
• 2002: Judy Niemack: About Time (SONY Jazz)
• 2002: Matt Wilson: Gong with Wind Suite (SteepleChase)
• 2002: Irio de Paula: Duas contas (Philology)
• 2002: Barbara Casini: Outra vez (Philology)
• 2003: Stefano Bollani: Suite for Paolo (Philology)
• 2003: Kenny Werner: (Owl)
• 2006: Francois Théberge: Soliloque (Effendi)
• 2007: Riccardo Arrighini: The Soprano Sax Album: Standards (Philology)
• 2007: Brian Dickenson: The Glenn Gould Session (Philology)
• 2009: Jakob Bro: Balladeering (Loveland)
• 2009: Dan Tepfer: Duos with Lee (Sunnyside)
• 2011: Jakob Bro: Time (Loveland)
• 2011: Marcel·lí Bayer: Nonitz Featuring Lee Konitz (Quadrant)
• 2013: Jakob Bro: (Loveland)
• 2018: Brandenburg State Orchestra: Prisma - composed by Guenter Buhles (QFTF)
• 2018: Dan Tepfer: Decade (Verve Records)

References[]

External links[]

• Lee Konitz discography discography at Discogs