Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz was cool before cool was a concept. Chicago born in 1927, he was twenty when he broke into Stan Kenton’s band. He made his name in the forties and fifties, helping to pioneer the cool jazz school of bebop along with the likes of Miles Davis, Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan. Known as a sax player’s sax player, he was as acclaimed by his peers for the notes he didn’t play as for the ones he did. When he passed at age 92, the song for which he might be best remembered is prophetically titled, “There Will Never Be Another You.”