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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
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Genre
- bebop
- Instrument
- clarinet
- Record label
- Impulse!
- Image
- Lee Konitz Bad Mergentheim.JPG
- Residence
- New York City
- Significant event
- COVID-19 pandemic in New York City
Show 9 more facts
- 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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