LEE PEARSON & FRIENDS ALBUM RELEASE SHOW
Lee Pearson moves and grooves with some of the finest names in music. From Broadway to Jazz, Hip-Hop and R&B, he is constantly refining his nest with his unique approach to the drums, while maintaining the classic vocabulary of percussion. Lee Pearson has been featured on five notable jazz recordings, including David Murray and the World Saxophone Quartet, Hamiett Blueit and Baritone Nation. Lee is currently recording his first solo album, highlighting his new nest and unique sound as he stretches for greater rhythmic heights and deeper musical depths....
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LEE PEARSON & FRIENDS ALBUM RELEASE SHOW
Lee Pearson moves and grooves with some of the finest names in music. From Broadway to Jazz, Hip-Hop and R&B, he is constantly refining his nest with his unique approach to the drums, while maintaining the classic vocabulary of percussion. Lee Pearson has been featured on five notable jazz recordings, including David Murray and the World Saxophone Quartet, Hamiett Blueit and Baritone Nation. Lee is currently recording his first solo album, highlighting his new nest and unique sound as he stretches for greater rhythmic heights and deeper musical depths.
Lee Pearson's singular percussive style has led him to the bandstand with some of the world's greatest pacesetters in Jazz and Hip Hop. In addition to touring with his own band, Beava's Atmosphere, Lee has also performed with Chris Botti, Spyro Gyra, Roy Ayers, Lonnie Listen Smith, Jean Carn, Bobbi Humphreys, Ronnie Laws, Jon Lucien, Wayne Henderson of the jazz crusaders, David Murray, John Hicks, Erykah Badu, R&B singer Bilal and the tonight show band with Jay leno - just to name a few. He also did a world tour with Savion Glover's 4 tony award-winning broadway show, "Bring in Da' Noise Bring in Da' Funk" from 2002-2003. His relationship with these musical giants has encouraged him to step out on his own and perfect his unique sound.
Lee Pearson is known to say, "To God be the Glory." He started developing his gift for the drums at the tender age of two in Baltimore, Maryland. His Parents, Lee Sr. and Judith Pearson, bought him his first drum set at the age of three and the rest is history. His first teacher was his mother, an organist at the Messiah's Temple where Lee's dad was the pastor. Every Sunday his mother would tell him what to do, and he's been doing that with style ever since. After his parents noticed young Lee's passion for the drums they enrolled him in the Baltimore School for the Arts. After high school he attended the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Throughout is career he has never forgetting where he came from and always puts God first. When he's not on the road he attends the Saint John Baptist church in Baltimore where he's the Minister of music, where he plays the organ and teaches the choir.
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