Jeanne Lee
Jeanne Lee combines acrobatic vocal maneuvers with a deeply moving sound and quality that allows her to alternate between soaring, upper register flights and piercing, emotive interpretations. She's extremely precise and flexible, and moves from a song or solo's top end to its middle and bottom accompanying an instrument with a stunning ease. Though many critics have cited Lee as creating free jazz's most innovative vocal approach, she's done very little recording, almost none of it as a leader, and even less on American labels. She's best-known for her many sessions with Gunther Hampel. Lee studied dance rather than music at Bard College, but while a student there, she met Ran Blake. They formed a duo, and she did her first recordings with him, which excited many critics. They toured Europe in 1963. Lee moved to California in 1964 and worked with Ian Underwood and sound poet David Hazelton, whom she later married. She and Hampel established their musical relationship while Lee was in Europe in 1967, going on to record over 20 albums together. Lee also recorded with Archie Shepp, Sunny Murray, and Hampel in the late '60s, and with Marion Brown, Anthony Braxton, Enrico Rava, and Andrew Cyrille in the '70s, while also working with Cecil Taylor. She began composing extensively in the '80s and began concentrating on performing her original material, which frequently included poetic and dance components. Most of her recordings have either been done for European labels or small independents. After living in New York in the mid-'90s, Lee taught at two music conservatories in Europe for several years. In 2000, Lee faced colon cancer without medical insurance. Some months after surgery, creative music lost a great voice. Benefit concerts (to help the family with expenses) were held by a number of jazz musicians, including Joseph Jarman, Gunter Hampel, Rashied Ali, Hamiet Bluiett, Abbey Lincoln, and many more.
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Discographie
13 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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The Newest Sound Around! (Remastered)
Jazz vocal - Paru chez RevOla le 15 juil. 2019
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Newest Sound Around
Jazz vocal - Paru chez RCA Victor le 25 avr. 2016
Discothèque Idéale Qobuz16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Newest Sound Around
New Age - Paru chez Glass Ark Music le 15 avr. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Natural Affinities
Jazz - Paru chez Universal Music Division Decca Records France le 1 janv. 2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun
Marion Brown, Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, Andrew Cyrille, Jeanne Lee, Bennie Maupin
Jazz - Paru chez ECM le 10 août 1970
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Free Standards - Stockholm 1966
Jazz - Paru chez Fresh Sound Records le 18 juil. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Nuba
Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille, Jeanne Lee
Jazz - Paru chez Black Saint le 1 janv. 1979
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
You Stepped Out Of A Cloud (Eng 11 Août 1989 Boston)
Jazz - Paru chez Universal Music Division Decca Records France le 11 août 1989
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Newest Sound Around
Jazz - Paru chez Starlight Jazz le 25 avr. 2016
Discothèque Idéale Qobuz16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee. "Free Standards" Stockholm 1966
Jazz - Paru chez Fresh Sound Records le 18 juil. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
You Stepped Out Of A Cloud (Eng 11 Août 1989 Boston)
Jazz - Paru chez Universal Music Division Decca Records France le 11 août 1989
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Scheiße '71
Jeanne Lee, Gunter Hampel, Michel Waisvisz, Freddy Gosseye, Sven-Ake Johansson
Électronique - Paru chez Black Truffle le 9 juin 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo