Lee Konitz: Bird Lives at Jack Kleinsingers Highlights in Jazz
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- www.highlightsinjazz.org presents Lee Konitz, performing at the April 8, 1973 Highlights in Jazz Tribute to Charlie Parker presented by Jack Kleinsinger featuring Mr. Konitz on alto, Cecil Payne on baritone sax, Howard McGhee and Jimmy Owens on trumpet, bebop vocalist Joe Carroll, Ted Dunbar on guitar, Richard Davis on bass, and Bernard Purdie on drums.
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I had the pleasure of playing a gig with Lee about a year ago. He still has that same sense of humor. Such a sweet person.
I saw a lot of Konitz and Marsh. Lee once said that the blues reflected a cultural experience (including dreadful treatment of human beings) that he wasn’t part of so ‘blues’ language was quite different. He performed ‘Blues For Bird’, an impromptu dedication at Bird’s 10th Memorial Concert, Carnegie Hall. He began by saying "I feel a little presumptuous standing up here all alone. If anyone wants to join in, please do!’. What followed from his alto made your hairs stand on end.
RIP Lee Konitz!
Konitz shows how to enjoy the moment... even when a little nervous being on stage alone. Such a great example of humor & music!
peace ,
Tom
great saxophonist, and great actor, and showman... if you don't know the musician, you discover an incredible funny guy.
@@Thouveninpascal This moment was a progenitor of comic Andy Kaufman's Mighty Mouse on phonograph bit on SNL.
@@jamescampoccio1152 But Lee Konitz is a victim as show man (what he never used to be) on this video, the only time I saw him so funny, and the audience following him in what is an unintentional humour.
@@Thouveninpascal You make some poignant points. Maybe Lee was a victim show-man here. (Charlie Parker, the priest of bop, never so succumbed.) I do love the late Richie Cole though, who can certainly be accused of showmanship at times. If Lee started out, here, unintentionally humorous, he really did begin to put some intention behind it, as he goaded the audience on. So it puts me in mind of a converse example: the comic who ended up succumbing to jazz composing and piano - the great Steve Allen ("This could be the start of Something Big") As for myself, I truly am something of an alto sax adulterer, fornicating with some showmanship, and some godly ministry as such. If you ever feel like it, send me your email address. I'll send you one of my "saxsermons" sound file attachments. (jamesj.campoccio@yahoo.com)
@@jamescampoccio1152 Thanks for responding. You are right. About this session, it is obvisous that it is quasi impossible to organise a"tribute bop" session. Everybody has a part of of madness/intelligence, that is be-bop.
Every day someone like Lee Konitz dies,
the music dies too. RIP
Moyo
Of course! They have to make way for the crappy music of today.
who knew Lee Konitz was so damn funny! thanks for posting!
First time I saw a video with Lee K. great muscian and what a character funny wonderful!!!
yeahhhh great video looking for more of them on your site thanks man!!!
Really legend, Lee! R.I.P.
Lee, what a giant. RIP man. They broke the mold with you.
He knows the wisdom of engaging with the audience. They love it!
His modesty is touching.
LEE KONITZ HAD THE SENSE TO STAY AWAY FROM BIRD STYLE BECAUSE THAT,S WHAT KILLS A ARTIST.
Wow, im smiling ear to ear watching his showmanship!
U just don't see that these days. Lee was a motherfucker and will be greatly missed!!!
His comedic timing is awesome. What a great stand-up intro.
Happy Birthday, Jack Kleinsinger ! He was 80 years old yesterday - 8/01/16 ! Lee Konitz will be 89 on October 13, 2016 !
Fantastic. thanks.
Excellent!! Thank you for all you share!!
Merci JazzGuy
Your all music is great
Thanks for posting this. The funny, dry, wonderful Lee that we love. He looks so young, but, would have been around 45. (?) --best, all--tv
Great video and thanks for sharing!
Fantastic stuff, thanks.
wow this is unbelievable!
Astonishing player. He would have a played beautifully with Bird. Saw him quite a lot. He played an impromptu unaccompanied blues, ‘Blues For Bird’ at the 10th Memorial Concert, Carnegie Hall. Not sure that’s available anymore.
Lee was a most interesting fellow.
OK watching him listen to the Bird melody jerks tears at my house. What must he hear and feel? 3:23
Now is the time 40 years ago,bravo
Awesome!!!
good old days!
あのコニッツがこんなに楽しい人とは！素晴らしい動画ありがとう！！
Wow. Thank you for sharing such a nice video. He was also funny!
Glad you enjoyed it!
oh boyyyyyyyyy !!!! how wonderful-lee !!!!!!!!!
Rip Legend 🎷🇺🇸🌹
[VH1 Behind the music...'73] 0:00-0.22 Mono-log / 3:23 Hot House [Supersax] (Bird) / 3:33 Bird Reminiscences & technical difficulties / 8:35 Hot House [Playing along] (Bird's band) / 10:25 mono-log / 11:45 "Charlie Parker" Audience Participation Meltdown "false start" [Konitz Bb Minor blues improv] / 13:45 Charlie Parker "actual start"
Fantastico Lee 🙌🙌🙌
Lee was a great player with a wonderful sense of humor.
@@JazzVideoGuy I didn't know Lee Konitz that way 🙌
12.13 - haha Lee to the audience "You can improvise". Great stuff.
hilarious and amazing. favourite video.
bye bye konitz legend of saxo alto. and thanks for all. hilarious tv show. really thanks for the smile you give us.
涙が出るくらい素晴らしいです
Che bravo Konitz!
BRUTAL!
incredible. jaw on floor.
Purdie on drums is always a good thing.
It's my belief there isn't a single great musician that is not funny -- no matter the genre and I've met some or heard as such. This beginning of the video is friggin' priceless and you all know why. What does one do when the chords or life keeps misbehaving and you don't know what is really next? Laughter emerges. Don't we subconscious-lee react and yet some like the Jazz folks can get down there and fix things? Or when a bunch of jazz aficionados show up and can't clap, what then? I cant wax any more shitty and sentimental. I was one step away from supersax because my dad was an arranger, which puts me a mere two people away from this fellow, Lee Konitz. A guy named Nimitz played in the Supersax band -- who lived down the street with us and had a prickly wife named "pookie". I think drummer Frank Capp also played in SS and both whom may have done commercial sessions with my dad. So what. At any rate I couldn't have understood or cared about SS, even though the idea of Supersax seemed cheesy to me even as a 12 year old. Maybe it is now! ... but I guess real musicians without pretense take it at face value. An odd platform for Konitz and a weird blast from the past. Anyway it is clear that this is some bizzaro world Andy Kaufman routine (Mighty Mouse) but it's Konitz saving the day.
Thank god this exists
Amen.
@@JazzVideoGuy oh, and thanks to you for making it available! I talked to Lee about this show after I first saw it, probably 6 years ago or so. The one thing he had to say about it is that Jack Kleinsinger never invited him back!
Some Freinds of Mine= Warne Marsh
Lee Konitz is a cool cat! What a great band!
I have both Supersax albums, saw them in person at Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach circa 1973. I'd memorized all of Birds solos so whistled along with them, which made them laugh. Rumsey liked me from the bar 'cause I downed three pitchers of beer. He probably didn't remember I'd played tenor sax with Natalie cole there in 1962, and also with the Santa Monica serenader Dance band, since we won the Hollywood Bowl Battle of the Bands that year. Most fun was playing at Shelly's M Hole
I haven't laughed so much for ages. Lee was doing his Woody Allen impression without realising it. Hilarious!
Genialidad.
Fab-u-lee-simmo!
He’s so cute in this
amazing footage of one of my all time favourites!
@JazzVideoGuy You wouldn't happen to be able to get your hands on some warne marsh footage would you? that would be amazing!
Cecil Payne
True comedian!
Well, Lee is crazy---in a GOOD way. He was seriously paying homage. Ted Dunbar's comping when he came in IMO was inappropriate: a bit heavy handed and sort of got in the way. Then he switched up and played the line---strange. Either you're in the rhythm section or part of the ensemble up front. I guess he was burning to play. Then he final got a solo--and Jack talked over the poor guy. I feel his pain. A lot of talent on that stage. Howard McGhee! Jimmy Owens is underrated. Good that this was preserved...
does he say Roy Haynes is playing drums at the end of the video??
Once you start laughing you can't stop : -D
?uestlove makes an appearance at 1:57!
Man is Lee funny
☺️💛💙🌿
3 pitchers at once?
Charlie Parker Charlie Parker Charlie Parker Charlie Parker- shit, I turned around the beat
surprised to see bernard purdie swinging on drums!
The man DID play with many Jazz greats like Miles and Dizzy. As his bandmate, Bruce Arnold of Orpheus once said, "there isn't a genre of music that Purdie can't plug into to".
Key in B ?
20:22
Funny jazz interactive
Lee had a great sense of hu or.
Thant was really interesting, thanks for postin. It seems the audience is pretty rude though, made him uncomfortable.
only if it were just him...
coarse not. being a gentleman, I drank them merely one after another.
Shades of Andy Kaufman.
MGA2
Holy shit, I was just thinking the same thing!!! "Shades of Andy Kaufman", indeed. It takes balls to play a Low-Fi portable cassette player through a mike to a live audience for almost the entire piece AND KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE ALL THROUGHOUT!!
Seconds after he pressed the Play button, I was squirming in my seat just as I used to do when watching any of the bizarre antics by surreal genius Andy Kaufman. Not easy for a musician to be a one-man show. It is self-consciousness reloaded. Konitz pulls it off effortlessly and endearingly.
that's Roy Haynes on Drums not Bernard Purdie
That is NOT Roy Hanes
No, he's not. Please here Konitz presenting him at 16:35.
Roy Haynes is briefly seen and steps off at the beginning. Konitz's drummer is Purdie though.
That’s what happens when you comment after watching only the first 10 seconds of the video.
Ha Ha Ha ,Bass very loud
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Terrible sound balnce detracts from hearing the music