The Music Plays On — Lee Konitz
2 min readApr 28, 2020
The great saxophonist, Lee Konitz, passed away ten days ago at the age of 92 from complications brought on by COVID-19. For an astonishing 73 of those years he was on stage playing sax, joining the Teddy Powell band in 1945, and appearing on Dan Tepfer’s album, Decade, in 2018.
And it’s not like he started small and ended big…he was always at the top! Appearing on seminal recordings like Miles Davis’…
