You Are Too Beautiful (Lee Konitz)

Lee Konitz · 1959 · Ballade de Rodgers et Hart, alto devant six cuivres

Context

Seventh track on the album You and Lee (length 4:05), recorded in New York on 29 and 30 October 1959 for Verve. Jimmy Giuffre wrote the arrangement for six brass instruments, and Jim Hall plays guitar on this piece.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream. Among the origins and influences of Cool: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Bossa nova, jazz samba.

By the same artist

• The More I See You (Lee Konitz) (1959)
• I Didn't Know About You (Lee Konitz) (1959)
• I Remember You (1961)
• Foolin' Myself (1961)
• All of Me (Lee Konitz) (1961)
• Subconscious-Lee (1949)

Sources

• EN: You and Lee

Jazzency text written from these pages. Method and licenses