GRACEfulLEE is an album by American jazz saxophonists Grace Kelly and Lee Konitz. It was released on July 8, 2008.
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Studio album by Grace Kelly and Lee Konitz | |
Released | 2008 |
Genre | Jazz |
Length | 54:10 |
Label | Pazz Productions |
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GRACEfulLEE is Kelly's fourth studio album. It has received positive reviews from music critics,[2][3][4] including a four and a half star review from Down Beat Magazine in November 2008.[5] Down Beat went on to name the album as one of the "Best CDs of 2008" in January 2009 [6] and then one of the "Best CDs of the 2000s the next year.[7] The cover of this album made a brief appearance in the television series, Bosch, produced by Amazon Studios, recreating a scene from the novel The Black Box (A Harry Bosch Book) by Michael Connelly.[8] when Harry Bosch tries to interest his daughter in Jazz by noting some of the younger artists of the genre.
The cross-generation collaboration on this album was duly noted by John Fordham of the Guardian in his four-star review:"Those who have heard Konitz's unquenchably inventive, tirelessly curious improvising will relish his cliche-purged style. But the formidable Kelly's grasp of that approach, and twisting of it with wayward diversions and rhythmic surprises, brings the sometimes laconic Konitz to the boil."[9] It is also solidified with comments on [10]
Kelly's collaboration with Lee Konitz continued into 2014, appearing as a guest with the Quartet onstage at the 60th Newport Jazz Festival of that year.[11]
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