Gordon Lee Quintet Featuring John Nastos and James Powers

Sat, Oct 04

$25 TICKETS | ALL AGES Gordon Lee - piano John Nastos - sax Brent Follis - drums James Powers. - trombone Xylyn Hathaway - bass Gordon will be playing an eclectic mix of his own original music, some jazz standards and maybe a Jim Pepper song! “Lee unravels a series of original melodies that are insinuating or soulful or both” — Jazz Times “Pianist Gordon Lee’s solos are often vast feats of architecture, their immense proportions looming up with great suddenness…symphonic precision as well as spontaneous improvisation” Jazz Society of Oregon 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.