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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 428,018 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Lee Konitz is the 857th most popular composer (down from 325th in 2019), the 4,150th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,477th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Composer.

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  • 430k

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  • 51.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Lee Konitz ranks 857 out of 1,216Before him are Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Gérard Grisey, Stanley Myers, Moritz Hauptmann, Isabella Leonarda, and Vatroslav Lisinski. After him are Josip Runjanin, Frederic Rzewski, Per Nørgård, Arnold Mendelssohn, Vincent Lübeck, and Ralph Benatzky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Lee Konitz ranks 176Before him are Oleg Yefremov, Romano Scarpa, Claudio Brook, Martha Chase, Ahmadou Kourouma, and David Hedison. After him are Sadako Ogata, Vladimir Kuts, Emmanuel III Delly, Dany Robin, Robert N. Bellah, and Henning Carlsen. Among people deceased in 2020, Lee Konitz ranks 234Before him are Jean Delumeau, Ernesto Brambilla, Louis Nirenberg, Larry Tesler, Silva Batuta, and Marian Jaworski. After him are Rubem Fonseca, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, Sven Wollter, Rishi Kapoor, Dragoljub Ojdanić, and Ivan Passer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Konitz ranks 4,150 out of 18,182Before him are Cameron Mitchell (1918), Marion Ross (1928), David Foster Wallace (1962), David Hedison (1927), Randy Crawford (1952), and Ciara (1985). After him are Tony Hawk (1968), Yusef Lateef (1920), Cathy O'Donnell (1923), Andrew Robinson (1942), Stand Watie (1806), and Olive Thomas (1894).

Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Lee Konitz ranks 48Before him are Amy Beach (1867), Harold Arlen (1905), Edward MacDowell (1860), Jerome Kern (1885), Elliott Carter (1908), and La Monte Young (1935). After him are Frederic Rzewski (1938), Cathy Berberian (1925), W. C. Handy (1873), Marvin Hamlisch (1944), Meredith Monk (1942), and Walter Piston (1894).