Jonathan Gee

Bio:

STOP PRESS NOV 2010. Check out London Jazz Fest gig. Jay Phelps album just released with touring in 2011. In Italy Dec with Barbara Raimondi and Jan with Joseph Lepore. Recently NSP performed in Finland with Paleface and started prepping new album........ STOP PRESS AUG 2009. Check out November Trio Tour with Joseph Lepore and Nasheet Waits. Northern Star People in London 1st October !!!! ............................................................. STOP PRESS JAN 2009. Happy New Year. Check out the Northern Star People project ( see friends below) or go direct to ITUNES OR AMAZON TO PURCHASE YOUR COPY OF THE NEW ALBUM 'VIEW FROM THE POCKET' !! ....also Howard Britz/ J Gee NY/London band on youtube featuring NY rising star Will Vinson on alto from last years tour !! Come to a gig on the Tony Kofi tour and check us around Europe in the autumn !! Conchon/Layzelles album out imminently !!! .......................................................................... JG first appeared on the London Jazz Scene playing and recording with Ed Jones, Orphy Robinson, Eddie Parker, Tim Whitehead, Bobby Wellins, Steve Williamson, Christine Tobin, and many others. He later formed a trio with Steve Rose and Winston Clifford which recorded 3 albums, toured internationally, and was virtually resident at Ronnie Scott Club in London. He also worked with Joe Lovano, David Murray, Teddy Edwards, Mark Murphy, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, with poet Lemn Sissay in Cameroon and Singapore, and with Damon Brown in Israel. Most recently he has started forming musical ties abroad. In Italy touring and recording with Gee Gallo Minetto, and now Gee Lepore Zirilli, and with saxist Tommaso Starace. In France with Didier Conchon/Ray Layzelles Quintet featuring Wayne Dockery on bass and Antoine Banville on drums.(First album out soon) Also in duo with bassist Nicola Sabato. In Finland with trumpeter/producer Mika Myllari the Northern Star people project has just released its first album, and as resident trio for a while at Helsinki Jazz Festival. In the UK with Tony Kofi, Ben Hazleton and Winston Clifford he has ( with the Monk Liberation Front) performed the complete works of Thelonious Monk, and under Tony's name the quartet have their second album out in April 2008. JG also sings with bassist Larry Bartley, and is a member of Micheal Mwenzo's Male Vocal Combustion.

Member Since:

February 18, 2008

Members:

Jonathan Gee Trio features bassists Joseph Lepore and drummers Nasheet Waits . JG vocal duo features bassist Larry Bartley. Northern Star People features Stan Litovsk and K Brest. My other main bands are those of Tony Kofi and Jay Phelps.

Influences:

Schoenberg, Captain Beefheart, The Dog Whisperer, Harryhausen...........

Sounds Like:

OURSELVES

Record Label:

various