Joe Lee Wilson - I Cover The Waterfront

From the album "Ballads for Trane".

One of the '70s most striking jazz vocalists, Joe Lee Wilson blended a strong, stirring baritone voice and good delivery with a swinging style and savvy selection of material. The results made him quite popular for a few years, especially on college campuses in the Northeast. Wilson studied classical singing, and attended Los Angeles City College in the '50s, where he studied jazz. He toured the West Coast and Mexico as a jazz vocalist in the late '50s and moved to New York in 1962. Wilson worked with Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders and Jackie McLean in the '60s, then in 1971 and 1972 sang with Archie Shepp. His dynamic lead vocals on such Shepp albums as Things Have Got To Change, and Attica Blues won Wilson recognition, as did his recordings as a leader and performances with Sunny Murray, Mtume, and Billy Gault. Wilson operated a loft in New York, the Ladies Fort, from 1973 to 1978, and appeared at the 1973 Newport in New York and 1975 Live Loft festivals. He recorded with Clifford Jordan in 1977, then moved to London in 1978. Wilson toured Europe, performed in London clubs and did some periodic New York dates, but never regained his earlier momentum. Currently none of Wilson's albums are available on CD, though Shepp's Attica Blues was reissued in 1993.
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More of Joe Lee Wilson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFup9Vxivw4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYto9b2-DZU

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[robbeau26]

Joe Lee Wilson became my friend in Paris in 1990 when he stopped by the ice cream shop where I worked and heard me listening to a cassette of Billie holiday. I used to hang out at the Duc des Lombards where he was playing with Art Lewis. When I told him I was leaving Paris, he had me up to his place to meet his wife and daughter. Had a nice little meal and some booze and Joe Lee slipped me a cassette of one of the Duc gigs. That tape means even more to me now that I've heard he's gone. RIP!

[MrBlues1942]

RIP brother Joe Lee Wilson. You will be missed

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[djayblaze1989]

Original.  Very nice.

[MexNortheastTaste]

Nice!!!!