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Introduction Søren Lee (born 20th January 1966) is a Danish jazz guitarist/composer.

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Biography

[Søren Lee] was born in Copenhagen, his father worked as a Danish lawyer with a big passion for jazz and rock music, so through his father's record collection Søren´s interest for music was born. He got his first guitar at 11 years of age. His mother is a Danish eye specialist. Søren studied guitar privately for two years from the age of 12 with a Swedish guitarist [Bjarne Roupé] and began his professional career at 15.

He went on to attend [the New School for jazz and contemporary music] in New York in 1988, where he met and studied with the now deceased legendary jazz guitarist [Jim Hall]. In the liner notes of Søren Lee´s second album that was released in 1992 [Søren Lee Trio Bellaphon Records] Jim Hall wrote this: "The wonders of Jazz improvisation have fascinated me for over 50 years. What a pleasure to discover a young man, Søren Lee, living thousands of miles away in a different culture, confronting these same mysteries and coming up with such challenging solutions. What a tribute to the universal appeal of music - jazz music. The selection and treatment of material on this CD is outstanding and the interplay among the players is a joy to hear. My congratulations to these three young musicians: [Jesper Lundgaard], [Adam Nussbaum], and especially Søren Lee." (Jim Hall, New York city January, 1993).

Søren Lee made his debut album in 1990 at age 24 with the jazzgiant and legendary bassplayer [Ray Brown], [Alvin Queen] drums, and piano player [Niels Lan Doky]. It was a big thing that took all the headlines and front pages of the biggest newspapers in Denmark, and was followed up by a tour with sold out koncerts and TV shows and interview in Danish National TV.

At the age of 18, Søren Lee went on his first tour as a guitarist with the jazzband "Orbits" led by the Danish saxophonist [Uffe Markussen] the band included [Alex Riel] drums, [Ben Besiakow]piano, [Marilyn Mazur]percussion, the now deceased [Jeppe Reipurth] among others. After playing a concert in [Jazzclub Montmartre] in Copenhagen the Danish newspaper [Politiken] wrote about Søren Lee headline: "Great guitar talent, danish guitar hope" by [Boris Rabinowich]

Søren Lee´s 3rd album "Living Now" came out on [Stunt Records] in 2001.

{Portrait of Søren Lee] as a guitar player in 1994 Danish TV [DR 1],

Søren Lee lived 4 years in New York where he played with musicians such as [Brad Mehldau], [Larry Goldings] [Ray Brown], [Alvin Queen]', [Roy Haynes] [Scott Colley] [Adam Nussbaum] just to name a few.

Søren Lee performed in 1991 with [Jim Hall quartet]  at Village Vanguard New York, and was also feat. with Jim hall quartet at Montmartre in Copenhagen the same year.

Discography

In 1990: 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. The band toured and played sold out concert nationwide, and attracted serious media attention, incl. front pages and national television documentary and full broadcast concerts.

In 1992: 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 Scandinavia.

In 2001: third solo Album [“Living now”] with Jesper Nordenstrøm (organ), Mads Vinding (bass), Martin Andersen (drums) Lelo Nica This album was also followed by many great reviews, “ Søren Lee, Master guitar player superior with a superior personal touch. [Fyns stiftstidende]

Others

1993-2000 Søren also completed some studies.

Back in N.Y. in 1997 to study classical composing for a year at [City College], playing two/three gigs a week in New York. In 1999, he started playing as a sideman on tours and albums with many different artists in Denmark to name a few [Cæsilie Norby] (two month tour in Scandinavia), drummer Jonas Johansens [“Please Move”] that was nominated for a Danish Grammy, saxophonist Emil Hess in different constellations, pianist [Jørgen Emborg], this year he also starts teaching guitar at [MGK] and different Conservatoriums in Denmark.

In 2005 he got curious about singing and the human voice and went to Los Angeles “Hollywood” 2007-2009 to study vocal technic with the legendary [vocal coach Seth Riggs] known from being coaching Michael Jackson, Stevie wonder among many others, 2007-2016 Søren has written more than 100 songs with lyrics.

From 2009-2017 he opened his own vocal studio in Copenhagen getting a lot of success as a vocal teacher by teaching pop stars from the radio such as (Jannik) from Nik and Jay - Vinnie Who among many others, in this period he is also playing around with his own bands and as a sideman for other artists.

Projects Since novenber 2016 he began his collaboration with the Swedish/Italian [drummer Niclas Campagnol] and it inspired him to a new recording. He is now working on his fourth [album “Diversity] together with the great Mauritian bass player [Linley Marthe] know from [Joe Zawinul] Syndicate and Niclas Campagnol on drums.

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ref1 [[null http://gaffa.dk/anmeldelse/17896/soren-lee-living-now]] ref2 [[null http://www.sundance.dk/artrel.php?art=160&go=3&view=211]] ref3 [[null https://www.sorenlee.com/diversityreview]] ref4 [[null https://www.discogs.com/S%C3%B8ren-Lee-Trio-S%C3%B8ren-Lee-Jesper-Lundgaard-Adam-Nussbaum-S%C3%B8ren-Lee-Trio/release/5648133]] ref5 [[null https://www.sorenlee.com/reviews]]

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