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Gordon Lee

Gordon Lee is a composer, jazz pianist, arranger, conductor and music educator. Although he is best known for his jazz performances and compositions, Lee is active in many styles of music. He has had commissions to compose chamber music and music for large ensembles from Oregon Symphony members, the Amadei String Quartet, big bands, and vocalists including a collaboration with Ghanaian singer Obo Addy on an orchestral suite in 2004. He taught improvisation, theory and jazz history at Western Oregon University from 1999 to 2019 and was Executive Director of the award winning W.O.U./Mel Brown Summer Jazz Camp. He conducted the jazz ensembles at Reed College from 2009 to 2017. 

New Music From Myra Melford, Jérôme Descamps, Mayra Dómine & Rodrigo González, And More

by Bob Osborne
January 4, 2024

On this show we present new music from Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet , Jérôme Descamps, Mayra Dómine & Rodrigo González, George Colligan , Gordon Lee, Dan Balmer, Mark Solborg and Sunny Kim with Vardan Ovsepian & Ben Monder. In addition, a look at Australian based label 4000 Records who release live recordings from venues ...

The Remainder

By Gordon Lee

Label: PJCE Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sailing Thru Time; Yearning for the Light; In the Lee; Alarm Clock; The Future; Fire Weather; Exhellation; Sublime Forest; The Remainder; Bozo Sulks on the Golf Course; Too Soon.

How Can It Be?

By Gordon Lee

Label: PJCE Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: How Can It Be?, Hypatia, Angry Mother Nature, A Robin Weeps, Show Pain, Shaky Assets, Too Soon, Bozo Sulks on the Golf Course, 'Deed I Did It.

Gerald Wilson, Wayne Shorter, Charles Gayle & Danny Jonokuchi

by Joe Dimino
October 8, 2023

We begin the 823rd Episode of Neon Jazz with big band leader Danny Jonokuchi and music from 2023 album Big Band Voices. From there, we hear music from his greatest influence, Gerald Wilson. We also hear from Audrey Silver, Linda Purl and Gordon Lee. We play an early Wayne Shorter tune in honor of the new ...

New Releases From Patrick Cornelius, Gordon Lee, Axel Filip And More

by Bob Osborne
September 21, 2023

On this show we feature new releases from Patrick Cornelius, Gordon Lee, Axel Filip & Maleza, Marike van Dijk, Guillermo Klein Quintetto, Giuseppe Millaci & Vogue Trio, Christian Dillingham, Cheryl Pyle, Beyond Flute Group, Andrew Rathbun, Trapeze, Andrew Danforth, Wolfgang Muthspiel with Scott Colley & Brian Blade, and Ivan Lins. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 ...

Gordon Lee: How Can It Be?

by Jack Bowers
August 9, 2023

Oregon-based pianist Gordon Lee leads a trim quartet through its paces on his seventh album, How Can It Be?, written for the most part during the Covid pandemic and recorded shortly afterward, in October 2022. Before recording, Lee had worked often with tenor saxophonist Renato Caranto and bassist Dennis Caiazza. Drummer Gary Hobbs, ...

Gordon Lee: How Can It Be?

by Dan McClenaghan
July 29, 2023

For a couple of years the Covid virus did its damnedest to shut the music down, especially the experience of live shows. During that downtime, pianist, composer & bandleader Gordon Lee put his idled hands to work practicing and composing new music. At his wife's urging, he also began a series of front porch concerts, casual ...

Orrin Evans, Benny Golson & Ray Blue

by Joe Dimino
July 2, 2023

From the award-winning chops of Ray Blue, we kick off the 809th Episode of Neon Jazz with a cut off his latest project called #People. From there, we hear new music from Bruno Raberg, John Allee, Orrin Evans and Gordon Lee. In between, listen for luminaries including Benny Golson, Howard McGhee and Lew Soloff. We wrap ...

Pianist Gordon Lee Finds Space For Self-expression In Dark Places On 'How Can It Be?,' Arriving June 16 On PJCE Records

May 20, 2023

Deep catharsis is the order of the day on How Can It Be?, the seventh album by pianist and composer Gordon Lee, set to drop June 16 on PJCE Records. Written during the COVID-19 pandemic, the album’s nine originals—performed by the jny: Portland, Oregon-based Lee and his quartet with tenor saxophonist Renato Caranto, bassist Dennis Caiazza, ...