Lee Konitz, Peggy Stern

Lunasea is a sextet date that alto saxophonist Lee Konitz shares with pianist Peggy Stern, recorded in New York on 13 and 14 January 1992 and released by Soul Note the same year. Fifteen tracks fill about seventy minutes, and most of the writing is Stern's. The label's credits give her nine pieces on her own, among them the title track, Bossa Tia and Leeway, and three more written with Konitz. The two leaders also produced the session together.

The date was taped at Sear Sound with guitarist Vic Juris, bassist Harvie Swartz, drummer Jeff Williams and percussionist Guilherme Franco. A.T. Michael MacDonald recorded it, Giovanni Bonandrini is credited as executive producer and Art Lange wrote the liner notes. Konitz brings two pieces of his own: Subconscious Lee II, which opens the disc at a little over seven minutes, and the closing P.S., under a minute and a half. To Peggy is a joint piece by Konitz and Juris. The pieces Konitz and Stern wrote together, Femaleon, The Final Blow and Djuo, are all around four minutes, and the programme moves between these short forms and longer Stern tunes such as Opertune and Leeway, each about six minutes. Solo Too lasts a minute and forty seconds.

This is the Soul Note CD 121249-2, first released in 1992.