RECORD PLAYER | Lee Konitz - Subconscious-Lee 1950 album

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styles Cool Progressive Jazz Bop






LEE KONITZ - Subconscious-Lee [Prestige]

Subconscious-Lee is a jazz album by Lee Konitz although a few tracks were issued on 78rpm under Lennie Tristano's name. It was recorded in 1949 and 1950, and released on the Prestige label (originally as PRLP 7004 in 12" LP format in 1955 as followed in the OJC reissue). (WikipediA)

A debut for both Lee Konitz and the Prestige label, Subconscious-Lee brings together many of the students who came through Lennie Tristano's idiosyncratic "school" of jazz during the immediate postwar years. Forging a heady approach to Charlie Parker's innovations, full of lithe and at times super fast solo lines, Tristano and his favorite pupil Konitz in particular nurtured an introverted, wan, yet still swinging alternative to the frenetic muscle of bebop. (AllMusic)


T R A C K L I S T
1 Progression 3:01
2 Tautology 2:44
3 Retrospection Written by Lennie Tristano 3:08
4 Subconscious-Lee 2:48
5 Judy Written by Tristano 2:54
6 Marshmallow Written by Warne Marsh 2:53
7 Fishin' Around Written by Marsh 3:46
8 Tautology 2:53
9 Sound Lee 4:06
10 Rebecca 3:03
11 You Go To My Head Written by Gillespie, Coots  2:36
12 Ice Cream Konitz 2:42
13 Palo Alto 2:32  



                                      Personnel ▼

Alto Saxophone – Lee Konitz  
Tenor Saxophone – Warne Marsh (tracks: 6 to 9) Guitar – Billy Bauer (tracks: 1 to 5, 10 to 13)
Piano – Lennie Tristano (tracks: 1 to 5), Sal Mosca (tracks: 6 to 13)
Bass – Arnold Fishkind  
Drums – Denzil Best (tracks: 6, 7), Jeff Morton (tracks: 8 to 13), Shelly Manne (tracks: 1 to 4) Written by Lee Konitz (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 8 to 10, 12, 13) Artwork [Cover] – Bob Parent