Results for "Charles Freeman Lee"

Charles Freeman Lee

Trio and Quintet

by C. Michael Bailey
August 23, 2025

Pianist and composer Elmo Hope has more in common with Tadd Dameron than most of his other jazz peers. Both men were primarily composers and arrangers who concentrated on their own music rather than standards. Both men spent their professional lives in New York City during the twilight of bebop and the flourishing of hard bop. ...

A Jazzman's Tale - A Jazz Story About Charles Freeman Lee, Bebop Trumpeter And Pianist - Author Interview

June 20, 2019

A Jazzman’s Tale about trumpet player Charles Freeman Lee is a heady mélange of a book that starts off with the unique perspective of a screenplay. Part one delves deeply into the gritty life of a jazz musician whose gigging takes him from the Midwest to New York and New Jersey. It segues into a down-and-dirty, ...

A Jazzman's Tale - A Jazz Story About Charles Freeman Lee, Bebop Trumpeter And Pianist

April 26, 2019

A Jazzman’s Tale is a screenplay memoir of bebop trumpeter and pianist Charles Freeman Lee. Freeman, as he was better known, was one of the jazzmen who joined the jazz revolution called bebop at Minton's Playhouse and the Paradise Club in Harlem, New York City in the 1950s. Freeman came out of Wilberforce Collegians, an important ...

Trio and Quintet

By Elmo Hope

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1989
Track listing: It’s A Lovely Day Today; Mo is On; Sweet And Lovely; Happy Hour; Hot Sauce; Stars Over Marrakech; Freffie; Carvin’ The Rock; I Remember You; Mo is On [alternate]; Crazy; Abdullah; Chips; Later for You; Low Tide; Maybe So; Crazy [alternate]; So Nice; St. Elmo’s Fire; Vaun Ex.