Jonathan Gee trios

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The Jonathan Gee Trio
Jonathan Gee, Steve Rose, and Winston Clifford have been working together for 10 years performing at jazz venues and festivals throughout the UK and Europe. They can be seen regularly at Ronnie Scott's Club in London where they have both headlined and supported artists including Joe Lovano and Benny Golson. Their week supporting Joe Lovano was voted "Time Out Jazz Gig of the Year" in 1997.

Steve Rose plays double bass, piano & keyboards, and has worked with Paul Weller, Tim Hagans, Tiny Tim, Eddie Parker, Jacqui Dankworth, Tommy Chase, Roland Gift and Samantha Fox, among others. He has worked extensively in international theatre and contemporary dance composing and performing music for leading companies including the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Amici, the David Glass Ensemble and Candoco. Recently he was Musical Director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, working with members of the orchestra and young people with autism. He also works as a film and TV composer.

Winston Clifford is one of Britain's leading jazz drummers. He has worked with Courtney Pine, Bheki Mseleku, Jason Rebello, Iain Ballamy, Julian Joseph, Andy Sheppard, Jean Toussaint, Orphy Robinson, Bobby Watson, Monty Alexander, Birelli Lagrene and Joey Calderazzo. He has performed in New York and Bombay with Carmen Lundy and is featured on her latest album, Old Devil Moon.

The Trio has recorded three critically-acclaimed albums, Closer To (1997), Your Shining Heart (1998), and Chez Auguste (recorded live at Ronnie Scott's, 2001).

Gee Gallo Minetto ~ The Italian Trio
In the summer of 2003, Jonathan was invited to perform at the Appenine Jazz Festival in Italy, accompanied by two of the young turks of Italian jazz: Danilo Gallo on bass and Alessandro Minetto on drums. It worked! The gig was a great success; a band was born. Immediately, a ten date autumn tour and a five date spring tour, both around Italy, were secured; a recording session was booked for the end of each tour at the Artesuono studio of Stefano Amerio. The trio all write for the band and have different writing conceptions which complement each other. Jonathan Gee has said that the composing concepts of Danilo and Alessandro bring out strengths in his playing that are different to those from his own pieces. Danilo has a slightly darker Venetian quality to his harmony and Alessandro has a fine melodic almost 'thoughtful Brazilian' feel to his tunes. This is a trio who can touch base with Monk, Herbie Hancock and Paul Bley, but in their own music create their own world.		Jonathan Gee, Danilo Gallo, Alessandro Minetto.

The trio's first album, Cream of Mandarins, was released by Artesuono in November 2004.

The Scandinavian Connection
Jonathan has been working for a number of years with Finnish trumpeter Mika Myllari. They have toured in Finland and performed for a week at the Pori Jazz Festival. In 2005 they will make their third consecutive appearance at Helsinki's April Jazz Festival. An album is planned for late 2004.

The Fusion Trio
At the core of Jonathan's fusion project are jazz/fusion/pop bass maestro Sylvan Richardson Jr., and hip hop uber-drummer, Richard Spaven. The band features the classic '70s fusion of Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius and Stevie Wonder, along with thrash funk versions of Jonathan Gee originals. They can be heard regularly at Matt & Phreds in Manchester.
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