Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre

Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre
Studio album by Lee Konitz and Jimmy Giuffre
Released 1959
Recorded May 12–13, 1959
New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Verve
MGV 8335
Jimmy Giuffre chronology
Herb Ellis Meets Jimmy Giuffre
(1959)
Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre
(1959)
The Easy Way
(1959)
Lee Konitz chronology
Live at the Half Note
(1959)
Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre
(1959)
You and Lee
(1959)

Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre is an album by American jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz and saxophonist, composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre which was released on the Verve label in 1959.[1][2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

Scott Yanow of Allmusic states that Giuffre's "arrangements for five saxes (including the great tenor Warne Marsh) and a trio led by pianist Bill Evans are sometimes equally influenced by classical music and bop".[3]

Track listing

  1. "Palo Alto" (Lee Konitz) – 3:55
  2. "Darn That Dream" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) – 1:55
  3. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 5:02
  4. "Cork 'N Bib" (Konitz) – 9:50
  5. "Somp'm Outa' Nothin'" (Jimmy Giuffre) – 4:29
  6. "Someone to Watch over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:36
  7. "Uncharted" (Giuffre) – 3:55
  8. "Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) – 3:59
  9. "The Song Is You" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 5:05

Personnel

References

  1. Verve Records Catalog: 8300 series accessed July 6, 2015
  2. Lee Konitz discography accessed July 6, 2015
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Lee Konitz Metts Jimmy Giuffre – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
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