Lee Konitz - Very Cool + Tranquility
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Artist: Lee KonitzEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-10-23
Music Label: Gambit Spain
Soundtracks:
- Sunflower
- Stairway To The Stars
- Movin' Around
- Kary's Trance
- Crazy She Caslls Me
- Billie's Bounce
- Stephanie
- Memories Of You
- People Will Say We're In Love
- When You're Smiling
- Sunday
- Lennie Bird
- Nearness Of You
- Jonquil
Music reviews of Very Cool + Tranquility
Music Review: Very cool indeed
Rating: 5 Stars
Gambit and Lonehill are putting our wallets under serious bankrupt risk these days, at least mine for sure. They are reissuing tons of fantastic albums from the fifties and sixties, and you know, it's becoming difficult to buy everything my jazz heart desires! These very beautiful Lee Konitz albums have been out of print for decades except for the well known and high priced japanese editions. If we were waiting Verve for the re-release of these albums probably we could have wait forever. Verve has an incredible catalog but the label is very very slow in reprinting them. Now they have started to offer some old albums on their site for download but to me this is not the way to go. They have not understood yet that the majority of the jazz collectors want to have the original edition of the albums they really love in their hands. Download is not an option (at least for me, but I know a lot of cats that are on my side). I want to own the original album, with booklet and everything. Gambit and Lonehill have understood this and are seriously offering stellar albums from the past to the jazz collectors. Onestly I would have preferred the albums on their original label (Verve in this case) but if this is the only way to own them at a reasonable price, well ok, I'll get them. By the way, who can resist to buy "Very Cool" together with "Tranquility" for few bucks? Not me for sure! Both albums are from 1957 and both are important albums, but my preference goes to "Very Cool" which has been called "One of the best 100 jazz albums of all time". Well, I don't know if you agree, every cats has HIS 100 best albums, but "Very cool" would be in many of those lists I guess. "Very Cool" is perfect from the beginning to the end there's not a single weak moment in it. The ideas flow from Lee's sax with incredibile perfection, one after another with a dry sound that is all Konitz. And the quartet he choose for this recording is way up there. Don Ferrara, Sal Mosca, Peter Ind, Shadow Wilson, everyone gave his very best here. It's a cool jazz music that is like a painting, ... extreme perfection for real. The program is various but stays between medium up tempo and ballads. But even if the time signature changes, the band still maintain a great coherence in approaching the music giving the whole album a unique personality. "Tranquility" is a different album. The line up is different and a little bit unusual, guitar (Billy Bauer), bass (Henry Grimes), drums (Dave Bailey) Lee's sax. This album due to this line up is more mellow than "Very Cool" and indulges in couterpoint here and there. The guitar in the place of the piano creates an even drier sound, underlining the specifics of Lee's music but I don't know if this is a plus. Another plus for "Very cool" is the presence of the very talented trumpet player Don Ferrara which has been a true discovery for me. "Very cool" to me is more balanced overall and more pleasing for the ear. My rating is four stars for "Tranquility" because it needs a bigger concentration to enjoy it and is less fun. But in the end together these two albums compose something that is impossible for you jazz lover, not to want. A very nice touch: Gambit inserted the beautiful "Tranquility" cover in full size too in the booklet. Ratings: "Very cool" five stars, "Tranquility" four stars.
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Description of Very Cool + Tranquility
Two of alto sax legend Lee Konitz' best selling albums together on CD for the first time. Both albums were recorded in 1957 and feature musical assistance from great Jazz players like Billy Bauer, Sal Mosca, Shadow Wilson and Dave Bailey. Very Cool features the Lee Konitz Quintet while Tranquility is performed by the Lee Konitz Quartet. Gambit. 2006.Jazz CDs
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