Prestige

Subconscious-Lee

Lee Konitz

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Recorded	1955
Label	Prestige
Catalog	LP 7004
Released	1955
Personnel	13 credited players
Discogs	master 258206

The record

Gathered from more than one date -- three drummers and two pianists show up in the credits -- and it plays as one long exercise in cool, linear improvising: Lee Konitz's alto and Warne Marsh's tenor braiding lines, Billy Bauer's guitar answering as a third voice, Lennie Tristano and Sal Mosca splitting the piano. Prestige assembled it in 1955 as LP 7004. 'Marshmallow' and 'Sound-Lee' are the ones people chase.

Tracks

Subconscious-Lee
Judy
Progression
Retrospection
Ice Cream Konitz
You Go To My Head
Marshmallow
Fishin' Around
Tautology
Sound-Lee
Palo Alto
Rebecca

Session personnel

Lee Konitz — Alto Saxophone
Arnold Fishkin — Bass
Bob Parent — Cover
Denzil Best — Drums
Jeff Morton — Drums
Shelly Manne — Drums
Billy Bauer — Guitar
Rudy Van Gelder — Lacquer Cut By
Ira Gitler — Liner Notes
Lennie Tristano — Piano
Sal Mosca — Piano
Rudy Van Gelder — Remastered By
Warne Marsh — Tenor Saxophone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Everything we hold for this title is catalogued as a compilation of earlier sides, so no pressing here is flagged as an original-era LP. The oldest listings are 1955 US mono on Prestige LP 7004, with deep groove and RVG stamp noted; a 1957 pressing carries the same number and the same markers. Prestige renumbered it PR 7250 in 1962, and Original Jazz Classics reissued it as OJC-186 in 1985.

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 35 pressings on file.

1955	Prestige · LP 7004 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Remastered, Mono earliest on file · deep groove; RVG stamp
1957	Prestige · LP 7004 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Remastered, Mono · deep groove; RVG stamp
1955	Prestige · LP 7004 — Vinyl LP Compilation Remastered Mono
1962	Prestige · PR 7250 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Reissue, Remastered
1962	Prestige · PR 7250 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Mono
1964	Prestige · PR 7250 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Mono
1964	La Voix De Son Maître · FELP 10013 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Reissue
1964	Prestige · PR 7250 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Stereo
1966	Prestige · PR 7250 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue
1968	XTRA · XTRA 5049 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue
1976	Prestige · SMJ-6522(M) — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Reissue, Remastered
1976	Prestige · SMJ-6522(M) — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, Mono, Promo
1983	Prestige · OM 2008 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Remastered
1984	Prestige · VIJ-234 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, Mono