Lee Konitz Trio plus special guest Danilo Perez April 5, 2008

TUE - SUN APRIL 1 - 6
(Sets nightly at 7:30 and 9:30; Fri & Sat 3rd set at 11:30)

Lee Konitz Trio plus special guest Danilo Perez

Lee Konitz – alto saxophone
Danilo Perez – piano
Rufus Reid – bass
Matt Wilson – drums

In an early-Seventies conversation with jazz DJ and journalist Herb Wong, the late pianist Bill Evans stated une­quivocally: “Lee Konitz is an original….I admire his mind, his values, the warmth of his sound, the flexibility. ‘Thinking’ musicians are so often thought of as unable to really swing. But Lee definitely does.” For nearly 60 years, the artistry of Lee Konitz has combined the technical mastery with a restless exploratory forward motion. Konitz was there on Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool, on Stan Kenton’s Sketches On Standards (with a classic solo on “Lover Man”), and on more than 50 albums of his own, right up through 200’s Portology, recorded with the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos of Portugal. “Among the purest jazz improvisers for more than a half century…” (Bob Blumenthal, The Rolling Stone Jazz and Blues Album Guide)

Tickets: $30 plus tax

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