Lee Konitz - Subconscious-Lee (1976 Japanese Prestige Mono LP)

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Lee Konitz - Subconscious-Lee | Vinyl LP - 1976 Japanese Prestige Mono Reissue (SMJ-6522(M), Prestige Jazz Masterpiece Series No. 22, Victor Musical Industries, Inc.)

Lennie Tristano's school operated on a set of principles that ran against the grain of what bebop was doing in the late 1940s. Where Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie built on vertical harmony, playing through chords, Tristano's students were trained to think in horizontal lines: melodies that moved in counterpoint with each other, rhythms that floated across the bar line rather than landing on it, tone that was cool and even rather than hot and inflected.

Lee Konitz was the most visible product of that school. These twelve tracks, recorded between January 1949 and April 1950, are the core recordings of the movement. The first four tracks feature Tristano himself at the piano. "Subconscious-Lee" takes the chord changes of "What Is This Thing Called Love?" and writes a new melody over them, the contrafact approach that Tristano's circle used constantly. "Retrospection" and "Judy" are Tristano originals. "Progression" is Konitz's.

By the June 1949 session, Warne Marsh had joined on tenor saxophone. "Marshmallow" and "Fishin' Around" are both his compositions. "Tautology" and "Sound-Lee" come from the September session. The final session, April 1950, brought Sal Mosca in place of Tristano at the piano and produced "Ice Cream Konitz," "You Go to My Head" (the one standard on the album), "Palo Alto" and "Rebecca."

This is the 1976 Japanese Prestige mono reissue (SMJ-6522(M)), Prestige Jazz Masterpiece Series No. 22, manufactured by Victor Musical Industries, Inc.