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On Friday, January 18th, Gordon Lee and the Rough Jazz Quartet featuring Alan Jones on drums, freshly repatriated from Europe, the inimitable John Gross on tenor sax, Dan Schulte on bass and pianist-composer Gordon Lee on piano will perform at Jimmy Mak's in a special reunion concert. $8 cover. See and hear the band that preceded the Alan Jones Sextet and created what some musicians beleive is one of the best jazz cds of the 1990's, Rough Jazz. They will perform such notorius GLeeful originals as Loss is Freedom and Tobacco Monkey plus some new tunes.
Gordon Lee has released his latest recording One-Two-Three on Diatic Records . The album features solo, duo, and trio works with Renato Caranto on tenor saxophone, Andre St. James on bass and Carlton Jackson on drums. Eight of the eleven tracks are billiantoriginals in their premiere performance by these world class musicians.
This is the sixth release by the veteran of NYC. The international award winning Lee is a mainstay of perfromance, composition and education in the Portland area. Gordon continues to perform worldwide with small, medium and large groups as well as his GLeeful Big Band.