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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. 

Tuesday Night

By Gordon Lee

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Full Moon; Low Profile; Sunset on the Beach; Machangulo; Istanbul; Blue & Bluer; Hoy Veo; Change Your Dreams; Urgent Message.

Low Profile

August 18, 2014

Album: Tuesday Night
By Gordon Lee
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2014
Duration: 5:33

Gordon Lee with the Mel Brown Septet: Tuesday Night

by Jack Bowers
August 15, 2014

For more than sixteen years, jazz fans in and around Portland, Oregon, have had the pleasure of seeing and hearing drummer Mel Brown's hard-blowing Jazz Messengers-style septet each Tuesday Night at Jimmy Mak's nightclub. Among its mainstays is pianist Gordon Lee who has been writing and arranging for the group almost since he enlisted shortly afterward ...

Flying Dream

By Gordon Lee

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Vicious Cycle, Flying Dream, Sentimental Fool, Now What?, Tobacco Monkey, Winter Comes, Bitter Wind, Wait for Her, Where or When, Alternative Blues

Gordon Lee and the GLeeful Big Band: Flying Dream

by Jack Bowers
June 15, 2004

We’re not told much about Gordon Lee except that he’s a Portland, Oregon-based music educator who has performed and recorded with a number of small groups and has been writing big-band charts for eight years. His influences, he writes in the brief liner notes, range from Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Maria ...

Gordon Lee and the Gleeful Big Band: Flying Dream

by Dan McClenaghan
May 22, 2004

With big bands, it's all about the arrangements. Those charts have to have that spark, as well as a depth and complexity. Then the solo slots--those punctuating flights of improvisation--have to soar, of course. They do here; they almost always do at this top level of musicianship; but it's the textures, the layerings, the eyebrow-raising counterpoints ...

This Path

By Gordon Lee

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2010