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| Author: Andy Hamilton
Creator: Joe Lovano
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $35.04
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 246292
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0472032178
Dewey Decimal Number: 788.73165092
EAN: 9780472032174
ASIN: 0472032178
Publication Date: August 8, 2007
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The art of conversation November 4, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Your Konitz book is really fabulous!!! Your last comment was
correct, it is a major addition to the literature. The way you
organized it makes it easy to read, and there's so much historical
information, as well as, a real look into Lee's thinking and approach to
life and music. I was truly hooked after the first chapter and just couldn't put it down. Andy, you really earned five stars for this one.
Comments from Ted Brown November 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read Andy Hamilton's book on Lee Konitz recently and just wanted to say how much I enjoyed it.
I think the idea of including interviews from some of the musicians who worked with him made it a very interesting read...in addition to being very well written.
And even though I have known Lee since 1948 I still learned a lot of things I didn't know before.
The author must have spent many years with him in order to accomplish that. Congratulations to him!!
Ted Brown
Remarkable book November 3, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am, briefly (on pages 164-5), a contributor to his book -- the author interviewed me several years ago about my feelings about Konitz, a longtime favorite of mine -- but the comments that follow, which I sent in an e-mail to the author, Andy Hamilton, a month or more ago, are ones that I would have made even if I had played no role in this book other than the minor one I did:
"Got it [the book] the other day and devoured it. You and Lee did a superb job, and as someone who used to be a journalist, I don't underestimate your contribution in terms of sound and creative organization of material, consistent attentiveness, ability to get along with/stimulate Lee, ability to set up and conduct intelligent interviews with all those other people, etc. I'm pretty sure there's no other book like it in jazz, and while some of that has to do with Lee's willingness to talk about things as much as and in the ways that he does, without your hard work and imagination and good heart, we wouldn't have this. Many thanks."
Larry Kart
Author of "Jazz In Search of Itself" (Yale University Press)
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