Lee Konitz

The award-winning Whitworth Jazz Ensemble recently returned to Spokane after a successful tour of New York City and New Orleans Jan. 9-20. Read More

“Some bassists stand out for the strength of their walking lines, their fluent technique or their expertise with the bow, or the musicality of their solo conception. Read More

Jeff Sultanof is our resident expert on arranging and composing at jazz.com. As an editor, he is responsible for making many classic jazz scores available to the public—including the Birth of the Cool charts —and in his contributions to this column he has championed unfairly neglected artists such as Don Ellis , Bill Finegan and Jan Savitt . Read More

Curated by Ken Pickering and Torsten Mller, this three-night collaborative project has eight internationally acclaimed musicians (three from Vancouver and five from the USA) exploring improvisational practices in a warm, intimate setting. Read More

Join us this Friday, February 5th, for an in-store Barnes & Noble interview with the members of the legendary ensemble Oregon. Read More

The recent annual jazz-focused issue of Wax Poetics magazine contains excellent interviews with two of the classic jazz record men, Creed Taylor and the ancestor Joel Dorn . Read More

Nobody knows for sure which tunes the venerable alto saxophonist Lee Konitz had planned for his recent visit to the Village Vanguard — probably because he doesn't plan his sets much these days. Read More

“His work is a virtual catalog of modern bass technique, tempered by his infallible musicianship. Read More

Nobody knows for sure which tunes the venerable alto saxophonist Lee Konitz had planned for his recent visit to the Village Vanguard — probably because he doesn't plan his sets much these days. Read More

We do know that Konitz, an octogenarian still going full tilt, has these approaches well oiled. Read More