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Lee Konitz

1927 - 2020

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Leon "Lee" Konitz (October 13, 1927 – April 15, 2020) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. He performed successfully in a wide range of jazz styles, including bebop, cool jazz, and avant-garde jazz. Konitz's association with the cool jazz movement of the 1940s and 1950s includes participation in Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool sessions and his work with pianist Lennie Tristano. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee Konitz has received more than 463,694 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Lee Konitz is the 780th most popular composer (up from 856th in 2019), the 3,748th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,139th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Composer.

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  • 460k

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  • 59.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Lee Konitz ranks 780 out of 1,451. Before him are Gaetano Pugnani, Felip Pedrell, George Onslow, Andrzej Panufnik, Johann Gottlieb Graun, and Eduard Artemyev. After him are Wilhelm Kienzl, Claude Le Jeune, Erkki Melartin, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Moritz Hauptmann, and Sigismondo d'India.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Lee Konitz ranks 174. Before him are Víctor Rodríguez Andrade, Endel Tulving, Martha Chase, Marcel Ophüls, Werner Liebrich, and Ales Adamovich. After him are Yutaka Taniyama, Josef Posipal, Ahmadou Kourouma, Stuart Rosenberg, Juan Alonso, and Sadako Ogata. Among people deceased in 2020, Lee Konitz ranks 215. Before him are Mario Corso, Alfred Worden, Pierino Prati, Silvio Marzolini, Daria Nicolodi, and Mad Mike Hoare. After him are Orson Bean, McCoy Tyner, Milton Glaser, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Robert Shavlakadze, and Marian Jaworski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Konitz ranks 3,748 out of 20,380. Before him are Tuesday Weld (1943), William Baldwin (1963), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Logan Paul (1995), Red Auerbach (1917), and Kerry King (1964). After him are Fergie (1975), John C. Breckinridge (1821), Lloyd Bacon (1889), Traci Lords (1968), Bruce Sterling (1954), and Edwin Drake (1819).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Lee Konitz ranks 42. Before him are Sun Ra (1914), Alex North (1910), Amy Beach (1867), Jerome Kern (1885), Dave Grusin (1934), and La Monte Young (1935). After him are Thomas Newman (1955), George Crumb (1929), Edward MacDowell (1860), Meredith Monk (1942), David Del Tredici (1937), and Cathy Berberian (1925).

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