Joe Lee Wilson-Goin To Chicago(My Uncle)

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame will honor Oklahoma jazz legends Sam Rivers, Terry Woodson, Joe Lee Wilson, Brenda Johnson and Dr. Lowell Lehman at the Jazz Hall's 2010 Induction Gala. Dr. Stephen and Ellen Adelson will be honored with the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame's Excellence in Community Spirit Award. Lalo Schifrin will be the recipient of the 2010 "Jay McShann Lifetime Achievement Award".

Joe Lee spend years in Los Angeles studying classical voice and jazz at Conservatory and L.A. Community College and was working frequently in California and Mexico, so when Ernestine Anderson invited him to New York in 1960 he was ready.

New York was to be the scene of his greatest artistic and commercial success in the U.S. over the next seventeen years. Under Jefferson's influence, Joe Lee focused his singing on compositions by jazz musicians while honing and shaping his three octave range baritone to the lines and punctuations of musical instruments. Collaborating with jazz greats like Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, Pharoah Sanders and Jackie McLean led to offers of recording contracts and a desire to be a band leader by the late 1960's. By the early 1970's Joe Lee was a key player in the New York NoHo loft scene with his Ladies' Loft at 2 Bond Street. His band, the Joe Lee Wilson Plus Five, featured alto sax man Monty Waters, guitarist Ryo Kawasaki and often included Archie Shepp and Eddie Jefferson. He recorded with Jefferson, Freddy Hubbard and Kenny Dorham and his album "Livin' High Off Nickels and Dimes" was a jazz radio hit in 1975. In 1977, though, Joe Lee moved to Europe with a new wife and his career took another turn.

Joe Lee Wilson spent the last thirty years composing and performing all over the world while living mostly in Paris and now Brighton, UK. He has done fifteen tours for the State Department, been an artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine composing sacred music, and has recorded frequently with special emphasis on blues rooted interpretations of songs by jazz musicians with his band Joy of Jazz. His 2010 appearances have been praised by audiences and critics, but you can see for yourself as Joe Lee will be at the Jazz Depot on November 16, 2010 for the Induction Gala.
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My Uncle Joe Lee Wilson Has Also Passed Away on July 17,2011-Rest In Peace....

ALL ABOUT JAZZ: Jazz Music, Jazz Artists, Jazz MP3s, Jazz ... Interview: Joe Lee Wilson November 2001 "I like songs with a positive message. We need positivity in the world more than ever." Meet Joe Lee Wilson-My Uncle has passed away today-July 17-2011-Brother of Ellis E.Wilson-My dad who passed away Feb-8th-2011-May they both rest in peace......

Joe Lee Wilson-November 2001
"I like songs with a positive message. We need positivity in the world more than ever." Meet Joe Lee Wilson

By Lionelle Hamanaka
"Music is a healing force," said Mr. Wilson, as he stood waiting to perform at the second floor theatre of the Greenwich Music School on Sunday night, September 30, for a tribute to Greenwich Village firemen who died at the World Trade Center attack. The event was organized by jazz pianist Fiona Bicket and the singer Zoe.
"Joe Lee," as he is affectionately known, had come to New York to promote his new CD, "Feelin' Good," (Candidrecords.com) just before September 11th. That night he sang "Goin' Home," "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother," "Jazz Ain't Nothin' But Soul," and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," with his beautiful baritone voice sculpting sounds like horn player, beating riffs out like a drum.
Mr. Wilson is about six feet tall and has the bearing of a tribal chief, with a warm, charismatic stage presence. He is part native American from the Creek Nation. He plays guitar and piano and has written original songs which combine jazz with native American poetic ideas, scales and rhythmic motifs.

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