{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Another Shade of Blue | type = live | artist = Lee Konitz | cover = Another Shade of Blue.jpg | alt = | released = 1999 | recorded = December 21, 1997 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = | label = Blue Note | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }}
'''''Another Shade of Blue''''' is an album by saxophonist Lee Konitz.
== Background == Konitz recorded ''Alone Together'' for Blue Note in 1996, with pianist Brad Mehldau and bassist Charlie Haden.<ref name="AM" /> Exactly a year later, the same band recorded ''Another Shade of Blue''.<ref name="AM" />
== Music and recording == The album was recorded at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles,<ref name="AM" /> in December 1997.<ref name="Penguin9" />
== Reception == {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="AM">Dryden, Ken [https://www.allmusic.com/album/another-shade-of-blue-mw0000257187 "Lee Konitz – Another Shade of Blue"]. AllMusic. Retrieved December 4, 2016.</ref> | rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin9">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |pages=838–839}}</ref> }}
The ''JazzTimes'' reviewer commented that the tracks were too long and taken at a very slow tempo.<ref>Sohmer, Jack (January/February 2000) [http://jazztimes.com/articles/10871-another-shade-of-blue-lee-konitz "Lee Konitz – Another Shade of Blue"]. ''JazzTimes''.</ref> ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' praised the renditions of "Body and Soul" and "What's New?", but preferred the earlier ''Alone Together'' recording.<ref name="Penguin9" />
== Track listing == #"Another Shade of Blue" (Lee Konitz) – 10:50 #"Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 12:15 #"What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) – 15:49 #"Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 17:29 #"All of Us" (Charlie Haden, Konitz, Brad Mehldau) – 11:27
== Personnel == * Lee Konitz – alto sax * Brad Mehldau – piano * Charlie Haden – bass
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Category:Blue Note Records live albums Category:Lee Konitz live albums Category:1997 live albums