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Live at the Half Note (Lee Konitz album)

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Released
  
1994

Artist
  
Producer
  
Genre
  
Length
  
96:02

Release date
  
1 October 2013

Label
  
Verve Records

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Recorded
  
February 24 and possibly March 3, 1959

Venue
  
Half Note, New York City

Live at the Half Note(1959)
  
Similar
  
Lee Konitz albums, Jazz albums

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Live at the Half Note is a live album by American jazz saxophonists Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh recorded at the Half Note in 1959 accompanied by Bill Evans, Jimmy Garrison, and Paul Motian and first released on the Verve label in 1994 as a double CD set.

Contents

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Critical reception

Scott Yanow of Allmusic states "They perform a dozen extended standards (or "originals" based on the chord changes of familiar tunes) with creativity and inspiration. In fact, of all the Konitz-Marsh recordings, this set ranks near the top".

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Palo Alto" (Lee Konitz) – 9:13
  2. "How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed – 9:15
  3. "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George Norton) – 6:54
  4. "Scrapple from the Apple" (Charlie Parker) – 7:53
  5. "You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) – 7:39
  6. "317 East 32nd Street" (Lennie Tristano) – 7:44

Disc two

  1. "April" (Tristano) – 8:44
  2. "It's You or No One" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 8:09
  3. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 5:40
  4. "Baby, Baby All the Time" (Bobby Troup) – 8:31
  5. "Lennie-Bird" (Tristano) – 8:39
  6. "Subconscious Lee" (Konitz) – 7:41

Personnel

  • Lee Konitz – alto saxophone
  • Warne Marshtenor saxophone
  • Bill Evanspiano
  • Jimmy Garrisonbass
  • Paul Motian – drums
  • Songs

    1Palo Alto9:13
    2How About You9:15
    3My Melancholy Baby6:54

    References

    Live at the Half Note (Lee Konitz album) Wikipedia