Lee Konitz discography

This is the discography for American jazz musician Lee Konitz.

Albums

As leader/co-leader

• 1949–50: Lee Konitz and Stan Getz The New Sounds (10", Prestige)
• 1949–50: Subconscious-Lee (Prestige, 1949–50) aka Lee Konitz with Tristano, Marsh and Bauer
• 1951: The New Sounds Lee Konitz Featuring Miles Davis (10", Prestige) - reissued on Conception in 1956)
• 1953: Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Pacific Jazz) with Gerry Mulligan
• 1954: Lee Konitz Plays (Vogue)
• 1954: Lee Konitz at Storyville (Storyville)
• 1954: Konitz (Storyville)
• 1954: Lee Konitz in Harvard Square (Storyville)
• 1955: Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh (Atlantic)
• 1956: Lee Konitz featuring Hans Koller, Lars Gullin, Roland Kovac (Swingtime)
• 1956: Inside Hi-Fi (Atlantic)
• 1957: The Real Lee Konitz (Atlantic)
• 1957: Very Cool (Verve)
• 1957: Tranquility (Verve)
• 1958: An Image: Lee Konitz with Strings (Verve)
• 1959: Live at the Half Note (Verve)
• 1959: Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre (Verve) with Jimmy Giuffre
• 1959: You and Lee (Verve) arranged by Jimmy Giuffre
• 1961: Motion (Verve)
• 1965: Trio and Quartet (Magnetic)
• 1966: Modern Jazz Compositions from Haiti (Impulse!)
• 1967: The Lee Konitz Duets (Milestone)
• 1968: Alto Summit (MPS) with Pony Poindexter, Phil Woods and Leo Wright
• 1968: European Episode (Campi)
• 1968: Impressive Rome (Campi)
• 1968: Stereokonitz (RCA)
• 1969: Peacemeal (Milestone)
• 1971: Spirits (Milestone)
• 1973: Altissimo (Philips) with Gary Bartz, Jackie McLean and Charlie Mariano
• 1974: In Concert (India Navigation) with Chet Baker
• 1974: Jazz à Juan (SteepleChase)
• 1974: I Concentrate on You: A Tribute to Cole Porter (SteepleChase) with Red Mitchell
• 1974: Lone-Lee (SteepleChase)
• 1974: Satori (Milestone)
• 1975: Oleo (Sonet)
• 1975: Chicago 'n All That Jazz (Groove Merchant)
• 1975: Windows (SteepleChase) with Hal Galper
• 1975: Warne Marsh Quintet: Jazz Exchange Vol. 1 (Storyville) with Warne Marsh
• 1975: Live at the Montmartre Club: Jazz Exchange Vol. 2 (Storyville) with Warne Marsh
• 1975: Warne Marsh Lee Konitz: Jazz Exchange Vol. 3 (Storyville, 1975 [1985]) with Warne Marsh
• 1976: Jazz a Confronto 32 (Horo)
• 1976: Lee Konitz Meets Warne Marsh Again (Pausa) with Warne Marsh
• 1976: The Lee Konitz Nonet (Roulette)
• 1976: Figure & Spirit (Progressive)
• 1977: Pyramid (Improvising Artists) with Paul Bley and Bill Connor
• 1977: The Lee Konitz Quintet (Chiaroscuro)
• 1977: Lee Konitz Nonet (Chiaroscuro)
• 1977: French Concert (Galaxy) with the Shelly Manne Quartet
• 1977: Duplicity (Horo) with Martial Solal
• 1977–78: Tenorlee (Choice)
• 1979: Yes, Yes, Nonet (SteepleChase)
• 1979: Four Keys (MPS) with Martial Solal, John Scofield and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
• 1979: Live at Laren (Soul Note)
• 1979: Seasons Change (Circle) with Karl Berger
• 1980: Heroes (Verve) with Gil Evans
• 1980: Anti-Heroes (Verve) with Gil Evans
• 1955-80: From Newport to Nice (Philology)
• 1980: Live at the Berlin Jazz Days 1980 (MPS) with Martial Solal
• 1981: Live in Genoa 1981 (Tramonti) with Art Farmer
• 1982: High Jingo (Atlas)
• 1982: Toot Sweet (Owl) with Michael Petrucciani
• 1983: Dovetail (Sunnyside)
• 1983: Art of the Duo (Enja) with Albert Mangelsdorff
• 1983: Glad, Koonix! (Dragon)
• 1983: Dedicated to Lee (Dragon) with Lars Sjösten
• 1983: Star Eyes, Hamburg 1983 (HatOLOGY) with Martial Solal
• 1984: Wild as Springtime (GFM)
• 1986: Medium Rare (Label Bleu)
• 1986: Ideal Scene (Soul Note)
• 1987: The New York Album (Soul Note)
• 1988: The Space Jazz Trio (with Enrico Pieranunzi): Blew (Philology)
• 1988: Solitudes (Philology)
• 1989: In Rio (MA)
• 1989: Konitz in Denmark (Rightone)
• 1988: Round and Round (Music Masters)
• 1988: Saxophone Dreams (Koch) with Netherlands Metropole Orchestra
• 1988-89: Frank-Lee Speaking (West Wind)
• 1990: Zounds (Soul Note)
• 1990: Once Upon a Line (Musidisc)
• 1990: Swiss Kiss (TCB)
• 1990: S'Nice (Nabel) with Frank Wunsch
• 1991: Lullaby of Birdland (Candid)
• 1992: Lunasea (Soul Note) with Peggy Stern
• 1992: Unleemited (Owl) with Kenny Werner
• 1992: Leewise (Storyville) with the Jazzpar All Star Nonet
• 1992: Jazz Nocturne (Evidence)
• 1992: Lee Konitz Meets Don Friedman (Camerata) with Don Friedman
• 1992: So Many Stars (Philology)
• 1992: The Jobim Colection (Philology)
• 1993: Very Fool (High Tide) with Massimo Salvagnini Quartet
• 1993: A Venezia (Philology) with Orchestra Il Suono Improvviso
• 1993: Free with Lee (Philology)
• 1993: Italian Ballads, Volume 1 (Philology) with Stefano Battaglia
• 1993: Speakin' Lowly (Philology) with Renato Sellani
• 1993: All the Way (The Soft Way) (Philology) with Renato Sellani
• 1993: Rhapsody (Evidence)
• 1993: Rhapsody II (Evidence)
• 1994: We Thought About Duke (HatART) with Franz Koglmann
• 1995: Haiku (Nabel)
• 1995: Steps Towards a Dream (Odin) with John Pål Inderberg
• 1995: Brazilian Rhapsody (Music Masters)
• 1995: Breaths and Whispers (Philology) with Umberto Petrin
• 1995: Thingin' (HatOLOGY) with Don Friedman and Attila Zoller
• 1995: The Frankfurt Concert (West Wind) with Frank Wunsch
• 1996: Body and Soul (Camerata)
• 1996: It's You (SteepleChase)
• 1996: Strings for Holiday: A Tribute to Billie Holiday (Enja)
• 1996: Inside Cole Porter (Philology)
• 1996: Inside Rogers (Philology)
• 1996: Dearly Beloved (SteepleChase)
• 1996: Unaccompanied Live in Yokohama (PSF)
• 1996: Alone Together (Blue Note)
• 1997: Self Portrait (Philology)
• 1997: L'Age Mur (Philology) with Enrico Rava
• 1997: Dig Dug Dog (Columbia)
• 1997: Out of Nowhere (SteepleChase) with Paul Bley
• 1997: RichLee! (SteepleChase) with Rich Perry
• 1998: Dialogues (Challenge)
• 1996–7: Another Shade of Blue (Blue Note)
• 1998: Subconscious-Lee (Summit) with Johannes Schaedlich:
• 1999: Three Guys (Enja) with Steve Swallow and Paul Motian
• 1998: Tender Lee (For Chet) (Philology)
• 1999: Sound of Surprise (RCA Victor)
• 1999: Dig-It (SteepleChase) with Ted Brown
• 1999: Pride (SteepleChase)
• 2000: Lee Konitz & the Axis String Quartet Play French Impressionist Music from the Turn of the 20th Century (Palmetto) with the Axis Quartet
• 2000: Lee Konitz at the New Mississippi Jazz Club (Philology)
• 2000: Some New Stuff (DIW)
• 2000: Live-Lee (Milestone) with Alan Broadbent
• 2000: More Live-Lee (Milestone) with Alan Broadbent
• 2000: Parallels (Chesky)
• 2003: A Day in Florence (Philology)
• 2004: BargaLee (Philology)
• 2004: Sound-Lee (Membran)
• 2004: One Day with Lee (Capri)
• 2004: Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor String Project: Inventions (OmniTone)
• 2005: New Nonet (Directed by Ohad Talmor) (OmniTone)
• 2006: Organic-Lee (SteepleChase) with Gary Versace
• 2006: Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor Big Band: Portology (OmniTone)
• 2008: Lee Konitz/Grace Kelly: GRACEfulLEE (Pazz)
• 2008: Lee Konitz & Minsarah: Deep Lee (Enja)
• 2009: Lee Konitz / Dan Tepfer: Duos with Lee (Sunnyside)
• 2009: Lee Konitz New Quartet: Live at the Village Vanguard (Enja)
• 2011: Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Live at Birdland (ECM)
• 2014: Lee Konitz/Dan Tepfer/Michael Janisch/Jeff Williams: First Meeting: Live in London, Volume 1 (Whirlwind)
• 2017: Lee Konitz / Kenny Barron / Peter Washington / Kenny Washington: Frescalalto (Impulse!)

As sideman

With Chick Corea

• Woodstock Jazz Festival 1 (Douglas Music, 1981 [1997]) with
• Woodstock Jazz Festival 2 (Douglas Music, 1981 [1997]) with Anthony Braxton, Pat Metheney, Jack DeJohnette, and Miroslav Vitous

With Miles Davis

• The Miles Davis Tuba Band (w/ Lennie Tristano) – Why Do I Love You? Rare Broadcasts 1947–48 (Natasha, 1993)
• Birth of the Cool (Capitol, 1949)
• Miles Ahead (1957)

With Lennie Tristano

• Intuition, Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh: (rec. 1949, Capitol, 1996)
• Crosscurrents (Capitol, 1949 [1972])
• Lennie Tristano (Atlantic, 1956)

With Stan Kenton

• City of Glass (Capitol, 1951)
• New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm (Capitol, 1952)
• Popular Favorites by Stan Kenton (Capitol, 1953)
• Sketches on Standards (Capitol, 1953)
• This Modern World (Capitol, 1953)
• Portraits on Standards (Capitol, 1953)
• The Kenton Era (Capitol, 1940–54, [1955])

With Gerry Mulligan

• The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (World Pacific, 1957)

With others

• 1947: Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra: The Uncollected Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra (Hindsight)
• 1951: Ralph Burns and His Orchestra: Free Forms
• 1956: Metronome All-Stars: Metronome All-Stars 1956 (Clef)
• 1957: Gil Evans: Gil Evans & Ten (Prestige)
• 1959: Warne Marsh: The Art of Improvising (Revelation, 1974)
• 1966: Dave Pike: The Doors of Perception (Vortex, 1970)
• 1968: Attila Zoller: Zo-Ko-Ma (MPS)
• 1972: Charles Mingus: Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (Columbia)
• 1974: Dave Brubeck: All The Things We Are (Atlantic)
• 1975: Warne Marsh Quintet: Jazz Exchange (Storyville)
• 1975: Hal Galper: Windows (SteepleChase)
• 1977: Bill Evans: Crosscurrents (Fantasy)
• 1980: Martial Solal: Live at the Berlin Jazz Days (MPS)
• 1983: Martial Solal: Star Eyes, Hamburg 1983 (HatOLOGY)
• 1984: Max Roach: It's Christmas Again (Soul Note)
• 1990: Frank Wunsch Quartet: S'Nice (Nabel)
• 1991: Lars Sjosten Quartet: Friends (Dragon)
• 1993: Renato Sellani: Speakin' Lowly, Volume 1 (Philology)
• 1994: Orchestra Il Suono Improvviso: A Venezia (Philology)
• 1995: Umberto Petrin: Breaths and Whispers (Homage to Alexander Scriabin) (Philology)
• 1995: John Pl Indreberg: Step Towards a Dream (Odin)
• 1995: Don Friedman with Attila Zoller: Thingin' (HatOLOGY)
• 1997: Kenny Wheeler: Angel Song (ECM)
• 1998: Gerry Mulligan All-Star Tribute Band: Thank You, Gerry! (Arkadia Jazz)
• 1998: Diane Hubka: Haven't We Met? (Challenge)
• 2000: The Axis Quartet: Play French Impressionist Music from the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Palmetto)
• 2000: Rich Perry: RichLee! (SteepleChase)
• 2001: Franco D'Andrea: Inside Rodgers (Philology)
• 2001: Renato Sellani: Minority, Volume 2: All the Way (The Soft Ways) (Philology)
• 2002: Matt Wilson: Gong with Wind Suite (SteepleChase)
• 2002: Irio de Paula: Duas contas (Philology)
• 2002: Barbara Casini: Outra vez (Philology)
• 2003: Stefano Bollani: Suite for Paolo (Philology)
• 2003: Kenny Werner: Unleemited (Owl)
• 2006: Francois Théberge: Soliloque (Effendi)
• 2007: Riccardo Arrighini: The Soprano Sax Album: Standards (Philology)
• 2007: Brian Dickenson: The Glenn Gould Session (Philology)
• 2009: Jakob Bro: Balladeering (Loveland)
• 2009: Dan Tepfer: Duos with Lee (Sunnyside)
• 2011: Jakob Bro: Time (Loveland)
• 2011: Marcel·lí Bayer: Nonitz Featuring Lee Konitz (Quadrant)
• 2013: Jakob Bro: December Song (Loveland)
• 2018: Brandenburg State Orchestra: Prisma - composed by Guenter Buhles (QFTF)