Home » Jazz Musicians » Eugene Lee

Eugene Lee

Sign in / sign up and request update access to the Eugene Lee page.


Tags

223
Album Review

Eugene Lee: equilibrium

Read "equilibrium" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


On this solo disc, his third, Portland, Oregon-based saxophonist Eugene Lee marks a further step in the disciplined path that led through his last release, Meditations (Pure Potentiality, 2008).equilibrium (all the titles are in lower-case, e.e. cummings-like) shares some elements of Meditations, notably the presence of Lee alone and the liberal use of electronics to generate a wealth of sonic variety: echo, loops, distortion. While the earlier record depicted the various states of the mind during meditation, this ...

281
Album Review

Eugene Lee: Meditations

Read "Meditations" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Jazz musicians have showed a sporadic enthusiasm for meditation: experiments by John Coltrane (and Alice Coltrane), Pharoah Sanders and Keith Jarrett spring to mind, as does the clarinetist Tony Scott's quixotic Music for Zen Meditation (Verve, 1964)

The music on these records focuses either on the nirvana-like state to which meditation practitioners could aspire after years of practice--such is the connotation of the Japanese woodwinds that accompany Scott on his Zen record, for example--or the vigorous journey toward ...

331
Album Review

Eugene Lee: Srivbanacore

Read "Srivbanacore" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Srivbanacore is the début record from twenty-five-year-old Framingham, Mass.-based saxophonist Eugene Lee, and the first release from the Pure Potentiality label. Fans of the free will want to lend an interested ear.The record is more or less split between three tracks that feature the lower range of the alto instrument ("Voices," the title track, “There Will Never Be Another Pluto"), quite freely played but with one foot squarely in the tradition, and three very different minimalist compositions in ...

Read more articles

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

equilibrium

Pure Potentiality Records
2009

buy

Meditations

Pure Potentiality Records
2008

buy

Srivbanacore

Pure Potentiality Records
2007

buy

equilibrium

Pure Potentiality Records
0

buy

Similar

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you.