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| Artist: Lee Konitz
Label: Verve
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 98828
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 065510
UPC: 044006551029
EAN: 0044006551029
ASIN: B000094T52
Release Date: June 10, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | I Remember You | | • | All Of Me | | • | Foolin Myself | | • | You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To | | • | I'll Remember April |
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Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.
Album Details
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Standards the way they are meant to be May 1, 2008
It's rare for me to give a sax recording a five-star rating, but I think this one deserves it for the simple fact the Konitz takes five pretty standard songs and injects them with a flair, passion and energy that is seldom seen, at any level. All of Me and Come Home To really move, and the solos are intricate works of art, like lace made of sound. Really, there is nothing much to complain about here, because the remastered recording is very crisp and clean and the music is rich and satisfying without being overly cloying or familiar to the listener. I don't know that I'd want to search out too much more of Konitz's music, because I don't think there are many post-bop albums that can top this one without going "cool", and if you prefer your jazz "hot" like I do, this is one recording definitely worth getting.
Brilliance April 30, 2008
Motion demonstrates some of the most inventive and original jazz playing I've ever heard. Konitz's improvisational ideas are unflaggingly fresh, hardly ever resorting to a familiar lick or idiomatic cliche. His modesty is also impressive; he plays quietly yet intensely, never showboating or flaunting his mastery of the instrument. His melodic genius is on display, subtly transforming small statements and ideas into beautifully conceived phrases, never restricted by the form and always always always played with a great feel. Elvin Jones, slightly reined in, also does fine work.
 Inventive, but Circular Motion May 29, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I tend to agree with both of the previous reviewers, even though their opinions differ considerably. I was eager to acquire this disc, based on very favorable reviews in both the Penguin Guide and the All Music Guide to jazz. I tend to think this album is one that jazz critics (and probably some musicians) enjoy more than an "average" jazz lover like myself. Although I can appreciate what Konitz has achieved here (unique and elaborate improvisations on 5 standards), there is a definite "sameness" throughout. We hear the same patterns--Konitz's cool, complex improvisations, Elvin Jones's polyrhythms, and Sonny Dallas's rather uniform walking basslines throughout the disc. The songs all end up sounding very similiar. This album does have a unique overall quality and IS different than anything else in my collection. It was very well-recorded (1961) and sounds great on this 2003 CD re-issue. However, I have a few hundred other jazz CDs that come off the shelf more often than this one.
 I guess zebras look different to other zebras... September 14, 2004
4 out of 19 found this review helpful
To my ears much of this album sounds the same in tempo, tone and approach. Its pleasant enough but the instrumentation: sax, drums and bass are just too limited in tone/timbre to provide much variety and the playing while very good is limited in dynamic or emotional range. The songs blend into one another in a foggy haze with little to set them apart from one another. Konitz is a motherf*cker on the sax though.
Konitz at his finest August 31, 2004
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a classic example of Lee Konitz's approach to improvisation--extremely long, fluid lines, with a keen, insightful, relaxed feeling throughout. Elvin Jones, capable of matching his style to almost any context, is less explosive than you'd expect him to be, but you still hear him weaving over and around and behind the beat at times. It's interesting to compare this album to Sonny Rollins' classic 1958 Vanguard recording, also with just Jones and a bassist--we don't usually think of Rollins and Konitz as occupying the same territory, but these two CD's sound eerily similar at times.
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