Vivian Lee

B i o g r a p h y 

Jazz  vocalist and recording artist Vivian Lee is truly a child of the world  having grown up in a military family, then pursuing a twenty year  military career herself.   She specializes in the standards – Gershwin,  Ellington, Berlin, Mercer, Jobim, and the like, with a  little Brubeck, Gillespie and Monk thrown in.  Her main venues have been  the cabaret/supper clubs and nightclubs such as 7-Mile House in San  Francisco, Mondavi Center,  Tsakopoulos Galleria,and Three Stages  Theater in Folsom and Sacramento Jazz Cooperative She was  also  a  mainstay at the Sacramento Music Festival.

Ms  Lee has played with such notable musicians as bassists Bill  Douglass and Buca Necak, drummers Ed Thigpen and Eddie Marshall,  pianists Joe Gilman and Emmett Cohen, trumpeters Al Molina and Dave  Bengdekeit, and alto saxophonist Jeff Clayton. She has assembled a top  notch ensemble of players from the area.  Her current band consists  of Joe Gilman or Brenden Lowe on piano, Buca Necak on bass and Jeff  Minnieweather on drums. Together with her unique style, phrasing and  magical stage presence, they…