Gordon Lee Quartet plays at Christo's in Salem

The great Gordon Lee brings his phenomenal quartet featuring sax extraordinaire Renato Caranto! Joining them will be the great Tim Gilson on bass and Brent Follis on drums. Doing some classics and some originals. They're gonna burn down the house, musically speaking! Gordon Lee is a composer, jazz pianist, arranger, conductor and music educator. Although he is best known for his jazz performances and compositions, Lee is active in many styles of music. He has had commissions to compose chamber music and music for large ensembles from Oregon Symphony members, the Amadei String Quartet, big bands, and vocalists including a collaboration with Ghanaian singer Obo Addy on an orchestral suite in 2004. He taught improvisation, theory and jazz history at Western Oregon University from 1999 to 2019 and was Executive Director of the award winning W.O.U./Mel Brown Summer Jazz Camp. He conducted the jazz ensembles at Reed College from 2009 to 2017.