Phil Lee - RIP

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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37812

    Phil Lee - RIP

    Only just received this notification of Phil's passing, back in May. Here is a tribute from Stan Sulzmann

    Phil Lee was the guitar player, reticent in the band mix that the players asked to ‘turn up’ because he was such a fine musician that needed to be heard more. Being introverted in the public's eye was possibly his worst enemy but musicians knew just how good he was.It wasn't unusual to bump into Phil and


    Aymeric Leroy's link to an interview with fascinating archive clips in which Phil talked about his successive musical associations in the 1960s and 70s, reminding me of how important for me that whole area of British jazz-rock fusion associated with Soft Machine and its ofshoots came to mean in retrospect, having pretty much missed out as I was so heavily involved in political activism during that period.

    Phil Lee, guitarist with Gilgamesh and (briefly) National Health as well as many other UK jazz groups including Graham Collier's band, Tony Coe's Axel and Tr...
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