david lee jones
david lee jones
Saxophonist David Lee Jones was born and raised in Houston, TX,. From 1976 to 1978 David attended Texas Southern University in Houston where he studied Music Education with a minor in Jazz Studies. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1984 with a B.A. in Jazz Composition and Arranging.
After graduating Berklee in ‘84 David moved to New York City and began working with Organist Jack McDuff and subsequently Jimmy McGriff..In 1992 David began working jazz/R&B singer Phyllis Hyman and The Mingus Big band. In 1993 David toured Europe with The Mingus Band and recorded the Grammy nominated CD entitled “Gunslinging Birds”. In between his 3 year tenure with Phyllis and the Mingus Band he joined the Grammy award winning jazz / rap group “Digable Planets” in which he became the principal horn arranger for the live shows. He played on, wrote and arranged all the horn arrangements for their Sophomore record entitled “Blowout Comb”, subsequently touring the world with them and appearing on numerous television shows such as MTV, Arsenio Hall, Jay Leno, David Letterman and the 1994 Grammys (featuring Clark Terry). That year Digable Planets won a Grammy for “Best Rap Group or Duo. Presently David leads and tours with his various bands in the NYC Tri-State area and abroad.
Since his residence in New York, David has also worked and recorded with Sade, Melba Moore, Jennifer Holliday, Anita Baker, The Ellington Orchestra, The Cab Calloway Orchestra, George Benson, Clark Terry, Shirley Scott, Jean Carne, Roy Ayers, Norman Connors and Aaron Neville to name a few.
Mingus Big Band Univ. of Houston 3-24-2018 https://youtu.be/cyoSeeD2AJ4
David Lee Jones Saxophone https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFJtSE3DGuKud3R_2IMrNrg/videos