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“Tristano was too contrived for me; he sounded terribly planned. Lee is very intuitive. One of my proudest achievements was when I finally got to play the saxophone well enough that I could improvise on it. I aimed to have a tone like Lee Konitz—but I don't necessarily think I got there!”

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As quoted in Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art https://books.google.com/books?id=pc4CsgVHLw0C&pg=PA65&dq=%22Tristano+was+too+contrived+for+me%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAGoVChMIrKPnnf_OxwIVBDU-Ch0dxg5F#v=onepage&q=%22Tristano%20was%20too%20contrived%20for%20me%22&f=falseLee

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