Peggy Lee (cellist)

Peggy Lee (* 1963 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian cellist.

Lee completed a classical cello training, but has been active in jazz and improvisational music since moving to Vancouver in 1989 . In the group Talking Pictures she met her future husband, the drummer Dylan van der Schyff . She was also a member of the Standing Wave , Tony Wilson Sextet and NOW Orchestra .

In 1998 she founded the Peggy Lee Band , a group with bassist Chris Tarry , trumpeter Brad Turner , Dylan van der Schyff and Tony Wilson . She performed with the group at the Victoriaville Festival in 1999 and has recorded four albums with her so far. Other musical partners included a. keyboardist Wayne Horvitz , pianist John Wolf Brennan , trumpeter Dave Douglas , guitarists Nels Cline and Bill Frisell , violist Ig Henneman and violinist Carlos Zingaro .

Discographic notes

• Talking Pictures: Ciao Bella , 1995
• Western Front, Vancouver 1996 with Carlos Zingaro, 1996
• Talking Pictures: Mirror with a Memory , 1997
• Standing Wave , 1998
• Peggy Lee Band , 1999
• These Are Our Shoes with Dylan van der Schyff, 1999
• François Houle , Cryptology , 2000
• Talking Pictures and Jorrit Dijkstra : Humming , 2000
• John Butcher , Phil Durrant , Peggy Lee: Intentions , 2001
• Sounds from the Big House , Peggy Lee Band, 2002
• John Wolf Brennan , Peggy Lee, Dylan van der Schyff: Zero Heroes , 2003
• Dave Douglas, Louis Sclavis , Peggy Lee, Dylan van der Schyff: Bow River Falls , 2004
• Wayne Horvitz, Ron Samworth , Peggy Lee, Bill Clark , Dylan van der Schyff: Intersection Poems , 2004
• Worlds Apart , Peggy Lee Band, 2004
• Tony Wilson, Peggy Lee, Jon Bentley : Escondido Dreams , 2007
• New Code , Peggy Lee Band
• Out on a Limb (Songlines Recordings, 2018), with Brad Turner , Rod Murray, Jon Bentley, John Paton, Meredith Bates, Bradshaw Pack, Cole Schmidt, James Meger, Dylan van der Schyff, Robin Holcomb