Brandon Lee (musician)

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Brandon Lee (* 14. January 1983 in Houston ) is an American jazz musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn ) of neo-bop jazz and university teachers .

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Lee received training as a trumpeter at an early age; he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston (graduated in 2001). At the age of 17 he was selected by Wynton Marsalis as a soloist for a Louis Armstrong program at Lincoln Center . At the age of 18, he moved to New York City to continue his studies in jazz music and began working as a professional musician. From 2001 he was one of the first students to attend the jazz studies program at the Juilliard School . After graduating from Juilliard, he taught on the school's jazz faculty for four years before moving to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2013 .

Lee then established himself in the New York jazz scene; first recordings were made in 2005 with Michael Dease / Chris Madsen . In 2006 Lee recorded his debut album From Within , on which Michael Dease, Jon Irabagon , Tommy Gardner (ts), Mayuko Katakura (p) Philip Kuehn (b), Marion Felder and Marcus Gilmore (dr) participated. In the following years he also played in the Christian McBride Big Band, with Aaron Diehl , Cecile McLorin Salvant , Roberto Magris as well as in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra , Village Vanguard Orchestra , in the Fat Cat Big Band and in the quintet of Kenny Barron . Under his own name he released the albums Absolute-Lee (2010) and Common Thread (2017). He also appeared (including with his own formations) in New York jazz clubs such as Dizzy's Club Coca Cola and Fat Cat Jazz ; he also directs the ten-person ensemble Uptown Jazz Tentet (album There It Is ). In the field of jazz he was involved in 19 recording sessions between 2005 and 2017.

Lee teaches brass in the jazz program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as Assistant Professor ; He also held summer courses at the Brevard Jazz Institute in Brevard, North Carolina, the Jefferson Center Jazz Institute in Ronoake, Virginia, and the Skidmore Jazz Institute in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from All About Jazz
  2. ↑ a b Brandon Lee. Smalls, November 11, 2018, accessed November 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Brandon Lee, mentored by Wynton Marsalis, now teaches future generations
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 9, 2018)
  5. ^ BMC Faculty
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Brandon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston