Jazz Articles about Lee Oskar

Lee Oskar: The Best of Lee Oskar

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 1999

Remember WAR, the old rock and funk group? Remember their killer harmonica player? That's right: it was Lee Oskar. Lesser known outside WAR, Lee released a passel of first-rate Seventies-funk solo albums. This Best Of collection culls the best cuts from those albums. They are uniformly funky and distinguished by the Danish-born Oskar's distinctively straightforward, refreshingly original harmonica playing. Oskar is not a blues harmonica player, and his playing is not laden with the clichés that dog all too many ...