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Lee Konitz

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Also known as Leon Konitz

American jazz musician (1927–2020)

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Lee Konitz was an American male saxophonist associated with jazz, cool jazz, and bebop. His professional career began in 1940 and concluded in 2020. He was a person from the United States.

His notable works include Nica's dream and Music Minus One Alto, Baritone, or Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet or Trumpet. He is referenced by 1,079 other encyclopedia articles.

Konitz died in 2020. He has a presence on platforms such as Last.fm, where he had 248,626 listeners and 1,554,093 playcounts. His tags include jazz, cool jazz, saxophone, bebop, and cool.

Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Lee
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Chicago
Place of death
Greenwich Village
Occupation
jazz musician
Languages spoken
English language
Genre
bebop
Instrument
clarinet
Record label
Impulse!
Image
Lee Konitz Bad Mergentheim.JPG
Residence
New York City
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date of birth
1927-10-13
Commons category
Lee Konitz
start of work period
1940-00-00
date of death
2020-04-15
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
COVID-19
name in native language
Lee Konitz
end of work period
2020-00-00
place of burial
Woodlawn Cemetery
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