Jazz Articles about Crissy Lee

About Crissy Lee

Album Review

The Crissy Lee Jazz Orchestra: . . .with Body and Soul

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2002

The second album by drummer Crissy Lee’s UK–based Jazz Orchestra is encased in the equivalent of a plain brown wrapper (no liner notes, composer or arranger credits, biographical or other information, the solo order furnished in type so small that one needs a magnifying glass to read it) but good things sometimes do come in unassuming packages, and . . .with Body and Soul is far better than its mediocre covering denotes. True, there are some hints that the enterprise ...

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Album Review

Crissy Lee and Her All-Female Orchestra: Things Are Getting Better

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1999

As if to confirm the promise of drummer Crissy Lee’s debut recording, the moment I placed it in the drawer of my CD player and pressed “play,” things started getting appreciably better around my house. Ms. Lee has marshaled quite a talented array of sharpshooters, and one can sense a seriousness of purpose among them that says “we’re no novelty act, pal.” In other words, these aren’t “female musicians” but first–class musicians who happen to be female. And if the ...