”what a pleasure to discover Søren Lee, a tribute to the universal appeal of musicJazzmusik-Simply outstanding ! Jim Hall 1993.
Søren Lee (Born January 20, 1966 in Copenhagen) is a Danish Jazz guitarist and composer. He started playing guitar at
age of 10, took guitar lessons for about two years with a private teacher and began his professional career at 15. He
performed with his own band in smaller places around Copenhagen. At 16 he started playing with the funk band
“Tonight” that Achieved big success around Denmark played around 4 gigs a week in two years. At 19 he started
playing with the Jazz group Orbits with Uffe Markussen sax, Alex Riel (Drums) Ben Besiakow (piano) Marilyn Mazur
(perc.) among others, and got his first review as a jazz guitarist with this band in the newspaper Politiken after playing
in Jazz club Montmartre headline was “Great talent, Danish guitar hope”. (By Boris Rabinowich).
In summer 1988-90...

”what a pleasure to discover Søren Lee, a tribute to the universal appeal of musicJazzmusik-Simply outstanding ! Jim Hall 1993.
Søren Lee (Born January 20, 1966 in Copenhagen) is a Danish Jazz guitarist and composer. He started playing guitar at
age of 10, took guitar lessons for about two years with a private teacher and began his professional career at 15. He
performed with his own band in smaller places around Copenhagen. At 16 he started playing with the funk band
“Tonight” that Achieved big success around Denmark played around 4 gigs a week in two years. At 19 he started
playing with the Jazz group Orbits with Uffe Markussen sax, Alex Riel (Drums) Ben Besiakow (piano) Marilyn Mazur
(perc.) among others, and got his first review as a jazz guitarist with this band in the newspaper Politiken after playing
in Jazz club Montmartre headline was “Great talent, Danish guitar hope”. (By Boris Rabinowich).
In summer 1988-90 Søren packed his bags and went for the big Apple New York to try it out and also to study music
at New School for jazz and social research.
In 1990 he records his first solo Album with the legendary bass player Ray Brown, “Søren Lee Quartet “ Ray Brown
bass, Alvin Queen Drums, Niels Lan Doky/Thomas Clausen Piano. A german music magazine wrote “Gitarr freaks
assgepast! Mit dem jungen Danen Søren Lee, wachst ein talent heran”. This band toured and played sold out
concert nationwide, he made the front page of the biggest Danish newspaper Politiken, interview in Danish national
TV ( DR1), a full portrait of him and this project also in DR 1, followed by a TV transmission of a full concert in Tivoli.
Søren Lee performed in 1991 with Jim Hall quartet at Village Vanguard New York, and was also feat. with Jim hall
quartet at Montmartre the same year.
In 1992 he recorded his second solo Album Søren Lee Trio with Adam Nussbaum on Drums and Jesper Lundgaard on
bass. This trio album received many great reviews: “Briliant guitar talent Søren Lee is a formidable guitarist nothing
less. (Jyllands Posten)”. This trio toured all over Denmark and also Sweden....

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