Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
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I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.Lee Konitz
I stand back, sometimes, behind the rhythm section, so I don't physically look like the leader. I don't like that concept too much.
Lee Konitz
I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.
Lee Konitz
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
Lee Konitz
You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.
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Each of these instruments has a voice, and if I hear a sound on an instrument that I don't like, I'm not interested usually in what he plays.
Lee Konitz
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