Jazz Articles about Lee Sankey

Lee Sankey: My Day Is Just Beginning

by Dave Nathan
July 1, 2001

Twenty-eight-year-old Lee Sankey from the UK feels he has given new meaning to traditional blues. The blues, as he plays it, “is the trad jazz of the 90's" coming from the street and influenced by such current fads as Hip -Hop. He has dubbed this new form of music “Bluebop". Well, it's his album and he wrote all the music for it, so he can call it anything he wants. I don't want to disappoint the energetic and ambitious Mr. ...