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Eddie Lee is a bassist, composer and recording artist, living in Sligo, Ireland.

Born 26 August 1961, Eddie grew up in Sligo and is steeped in its music scene. His career has spanned more than 3 decades and several genres of music.

Eddie appeared as the only guest musician on Enya's 2015 release "Dark Sky Island".

The variety of Eddie's recent musical life was evident in an eventful 2013 diary, which saw a reunion date with his early career band, Those Nervous Animals, followed by his first Arts Council commission, the Hawk's Well Theatre commissioned Barinthus Suite, inspired by Sligo's megalithic landscape, co-composed by Eddie and Northern Irish drummer and composer David Lyttle. The suite premiered at Sligo Jazz Project 2013 featuring pianist Kenny Werner, saxophonist Jean Toussaint and a host of traditional musicians including members of Moxie and The Olllam. Later in July, as a member of the 100-strong Dublin Gospel Choir, Eddie performed with the legendary composer Ennio Morricone on his two Irish concerts, an achievement he lists as one of the highlights of his working life. The rest of the year was taken up with a Swiss tour with his acoustic band NoCrows, year-round party, wedding and pub dates as bassist and DJ with Anything Goes and as a member of the pit orchestra on three local musical theatre shows.

History: A self-taught bassist, producer, composer and recording artist, Eddie has toured internationally and/or recorded as bassist in the rock and pop world with Juliet Turner, Those Nervous Animals, Brian Kennedy, The Pale, Auto da Fe, Katell Keineg, Nine Wassies from Bainne, in folk territory with NoCrows, Stockton's Wing, Maura O Connell, Dolores Keane, Kieran Goss, John Faulkner, Frances Black, Gary O Briain, Colm O Donnell, Seamie O Dowd, Speranza, Dervish and Cafe Orchestra. Eddie has also collaborated on projects with Enya, Bill Whelan, Donal Lunny, Liam O Connor and co-produced many recordings in a wide range of genres over the the years. Other musicians from the jazz & improvised sphere Eddie has performed with include Kenny Werner, Jean Toussaint, Cleveland Watkiss, Soweto Kinch, Andreas Varady, David Lyttle, Tom Harrison, Michael Manring, John Goldsby, Gay McIntyre, Paul McIntyre, Stephen Davis, Michael Buckley, Phil Ware, Richie Buckley, Justin Carroll, Michael Nielsen, Louis Stewart, Sandro Gibellini (Italy), Veronika Stalder (Switzerland) and Niels Rosendahl (Australia). Originally an electric bassist, Eddie took up double in the 1990's while playing with several Irish folk acts, though his love for jazz began eventually to express itself in his learning and playing. Eddie has studied jazz at various periods with Mike Nielsen, Rufus Reid, john Goldsby, Eric Revis, Sandro Gibellini, Philip Donkin, Greg Burk and Arnie Somogyi amongst others.

Eddie performs as bassist with:

NoCrows: an eclectic gathering of musicians from different cultures and influences performing acoustic music. NoCrows has performed at some of Europe's biggest festivals including Glastonbury and Dranouter. No Crows founding members, along with Eddie, were Steve Wickham, fiddle & vocals, Anna Houston, cello & mandolin, & Felip Carbonell, guitar & vocals. NoCrows have three CDs: “Live at the Strand” (2006), "Magpie" (2009), "NoCrows on the Moon" (2011) and record their fourth album in February 2014.

Anything Goes: Five piece party band featuring Sinead Conway (v) Dave Flynn (g&v), Kieran Quinn (Pno), Ken McDonald (drms).

The Odd Couple: Jazz trio with Kieran Quinn, piano & Ken McDonald, drums.

Eddie is administrator and artistic director of Sligo Jazz Project, a music education organisation which hosts Sligo International Jazz Summer School and Jazz Festival each July.

He is married to Therese and has three children, Penny, Liam and Mimi.

Ed (talk) 18:35, 8 January 2014 (UTC) personal first hand information of the subject of the bio

Ed 01:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)