Phil Lee

Phillip Robert Lee (born 8 April 1943, London) is an English jazz guitarist.

Lee studied guitar with Ike Isaacs as a teenager and was a member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, including for their performance at the 1960 Antibes Jazz Festival. Later in the 1960s he played with John Williams, Graham Collier, and a group that included Bob Stuckey, Dudu Pukwana, and John Marshall.

He worked in both jazz and jazz fusion idioms in the 1970s, with Pat Smythe, Bob Cornford, Henry Lowther, Tony Coe's Axel, Gilgamesh, and Paz. Later in his career he worked with Gordon Beck, Andres Boiarsky, Benny Goodman, Lena Horne, Marian Montgomery, and Annie Ross, as well as with the London Jazz Orchestra.

References

• Mark Gilbert, "Phil Lee". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.