Sean Lee

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Sean Lee is a Los Angeles based guitarist and band leader. Studying under the direction of drummer Megan Foley, guitarist Steve Cotter, and saxophonist Ray Briggs, Lee has paved a musical path of his own combining his various influences of bebop, fusion, and Latin music. He has played in various clubs around the city as well as various ensembles at UCLA. He is currently working as a session player for up and coming songwriters and bands of all genres. His debut album “Embrace Saturn” Was released August 2018 through the label Adobe House Records. Lee recently complete his sophomore album “Sonance" which was released on all platforms May 3rd, 2019. The album pays tribute to Miles Davis' electric period and captures what rock music could have texturally sounded to jazz musicians who had been playing long before the advent of the 1960s.

Mike Thompson: 6th Avenue

Read "6th Avenue" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 30, 2025

Composer and arranger Mike Thompson was in his mid-twenties when 6th Avenue, his debut album as leader of a big band, was recorded (in the mid-2020s) at Q Division Studios in Cambridge, Massachusetts, enlisting for the most part veteran Boston-area musicians whom Thompson had met and befriended while studying at the Berklee School of Music, from which he was graduated in 2021. Although Thompson names Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider and Igor Stravinsky as role models, you would be ...