 Исполнитель: Lee Konitz, Dan Tepfer Название альбома: Lee Konitz with Dan Tepfer at London Jazz Festival, November 18, 2013 Год выпуска: 2013, bootleg Формат файлов: Mp3, 320 Размер архива: 152 Mb Скачать с: rusfolder
Suitably undressed (with another comment about playing “cool” in such a hot room), Konitz asked his collaborator to initiate the next tune, saying to the audience “I hope you can recognise it”, adding “I hope I can recognise it!” Tepfer gave the game away with a fragment of the melody early on, but then the pair ensured that every nuance of I’ll Remember April received a comprehensive seeing-to. With imagination oozing from every pore, Konitz and Tepfer took the horribly over-performed Body And Soul and came up with a real surprise: they traded vocal, as well as instrumental, lines. Their singing may have lacked expertise, but it was perfect, and almost unbearably moving. At the end, Konitz said “it took 78 years to [have the guts to] do that”.
With a style completely different from the melodic elegance of Alan Broadbent and the wry harmonic landscapes of Gil Evans (both of whom recorded with Konitz in duet format), Tepfer was a provocative and edgy catalyst who pushed the saxophonist’s more formalised “original” tunes Subconscious-Lee (based on What Is This Thing Called Love) and Thingin’ (All The Things You Are) into deeper territory. Between those two pieces, the pianist was rewarded with a few minutes to explore, unaccompanied, some of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. If anyone were to opine that jazz and classical make uncomfortable bedfellows, they should have listened to this. It was absorbing and utterly sublime.
The encore, Darn That Dream, was delivered with all the clarity and passion of everything that went before. By then, though, one felt that the job was done. An hour of wonderful jazz could not have been improved by carrying on for any longer. Lee Konitz demonstrated that – at 86, would you believe! – he is simply the best improviser of them all. And in Dan Tepfer he has the perfect musical partner.
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01. Stella by starlight
02. I'll remember April
03. Body and soul
04. Subconscious Lee
05. Goldberg Variations & Improvisations
06. All the things you are
07. Darn that dream
Recorded at London Jazz Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, November 18, 2013
Lee Konitz, alto sax
Dan Tepfer, piano
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