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I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
Lee Konitz
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Lee Konitz
Age: 92 †
Born: 1927
Born: October 13
Died: 2020
Died: April 15
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Leon Konitz
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Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.
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Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
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We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.
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I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
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After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.
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I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.
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I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
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I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
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In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
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I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.
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I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
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