Round & Round [Original recording reissued]

Lee Konitz | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 5, 1995)
• Original Release Date: 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Music Masters Jazz
• ASIN: B000000FPU
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #579,474 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, not essential, December 4, 2005

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N. Dorward "obsessive reviewer" (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Round & Round (Audio CD)

This has a winning combination--Lee Konitz + Fred Hersch--but somehow this album never clicked with me. It has a peculiar "concept", in that all of the tunes are done as waltzes, whether or not they were originally written in 3/4 or 4/4. The real oddity here is "Giant Steps", which is done first as a relaxed waltz & then (like many of the tracks) they use a metrical transition to get into a quicker 4/4.... though at this point the chords are at half-speed so it's not quite the tortuous maze of chords that Coltrane devised! A nice "Someday My Prince Will Come", a good Konitz original, & in general the album's fine, but it's not a standout, & the waltztimes got to me after a while for some reason.