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Lee Konitz was an American jazz saxophonist and composer, born on October 13, 1927, in Chicago, Illinois. He began playing the clarinet at the age of 11 and studied with a member of the local music community before switching to the tenor saxophone in 1942, and finally to the alto saxophone. Konitz started performing professionally in 1945 and collaborated with various artists, including a significant association with pianist Lennie Tristano, whom he first met and worked with in 1946. He recorded with a nonet in 1949-50, which was later collected as the "Birth of the Cool" album. During the 1950s, he formed an association with another Tristano acolyte. In 1992, he received Denmark's Jazzpar prize. Konitz passed away on April 15, 2020, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Greenwich Village, New York City, due to complications from the coronavirus and pneumonia.

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