Joe Lee Wilson

Joe Lee Wilson ( born December 22, 1935 † 17 July 2011) was an American jazz singer.

Life and work

Joe Lee Wilson African American and Native American roots. He grew up on the family farm on at Bristow (Oklahoma). His early influences included the singing of Louis Jordan, he heard on the radio, finally Nat King Cole and Dinah Washington. At 15, he moved to Los Angeles, where his aunt lived. There he met the jazz singer Eddie Jefferson know. After a short vocal studies at Los Angeles City College, he started in the club scene of Santa Monica occur. He had first engagements with Fletcher Henderson's saxophonist Roscoe Weathers. From 1959 he worked in Mexico, where he performed with the singer Ernestine Anderson, who provided him with contacts in New York. There he came across the free-jazz and avant-garde scene to Archie Shepp, Amiri Baraka and Sunny Murray, and he also worked with Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders and Jackie McLean. In 1968 he received a recording contract with Columbia Records, but the label released none of his shots. In the 1970s, he rented a building in Bond Street, next to Sam Rivers ' Rivbea loft and created the venue Ladies' Fort, also a union of the existing lofts there and organized a regular -find music festival. The Ladies' Fort closed in 1979.

Belonged to Wilson's most famous recordings with the Shepp Things Have Got to Change Album (1971) and Attica Blues (1972). In the same year, the recording of a live radio show ( Livin 'High Off Nickels and Dimes ) at Columbia University was established; In 1975 he had a hit on New York radio stations with Jazz Is not Nothing But Soul.

In 1977 he married an English Jill Christopher and moved to Europe, where he occasionally worked with the pianist Bobby Few, Billy Gault and Kirk Lightsey, who has worked at his album Feelin 'Good ( Candid Records). 2004 was followed by the album Ballads for Trane with Gianni Basso and Riccardo Arrighini that recalled the cooperation of Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane. In 2010 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.

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