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An Image: Lee Konitz with Strings

album by Lee Konitz

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ24966652 ↗
Source-derived summary

An Image: Lee Konitz with Strings is an album by American jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz with an orchestra arranged and conducted by William Russo which was released on the Verve label in 1958.

Track listing

All compositions by William Russo unless noted.

Editorial summary

“An Image: Lee Konitz with Strings” enters the record as album by Lee Konitz. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Image, Konitz and Strings can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Image, Konitz and Strings.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“An Image: Lee Konitz with Strings” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Image, Konitz and Strings provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q24966652. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “An Image: Lee Konitz with Strings” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.