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Lee Taylor is a woodwind player who has been an active part of the Albuquerque music scene for several years. Lee is a graduate of the University of New Mexico where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Saxophone Performance. He has studied saxophone, clarinet and flute with many teachers including Keith Lemmons, John Winder, Greg Armstrong, Mark Vinci, and Gary Foster.

Lee has performed with many of the top names in the music business including such popular artists as The Temptations, The O'Jays, The Four Tops, Bernadette Peters, Olivia Newton-John, Johnny Mathis, The Fifth Dimension, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, Wayne Newton, Frankie Valli, Regis Philbin, Susan Lucci, Lou Christie, Rosemary Clooney, Crystal Gayle, and Bobby Vinton to name a few.

As a jazz artist, Lee has performed with Joe Lovano, Bobby Shew, Clark Terry, Eddie Daniels, Richard Stoltzman, Louis Bellson, The New York Voices, Pete Cristlieb, Kevin Mahogany, Bill Watrous, Wayne Bergeron, John Fedchock, Ed Soph, Dennis Mackrel, Abe Most, Frank Capp, the Outpost Repertory Jazz Orchestra and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet among many others. From 1990 through 1992, Lee was a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Larry O'Brien where he played alto saxophone, clarinet, flute and sang with the Moonlight Serenaders. As part of a world tour with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Lee toured Japan, North and South America, Europe, and performed at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California. He appears on two CDs as a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra; Moonlight Serenade (1990) and Here We Go Again (1992). Lee has also performed on the S.S. Norway and Royal Viking Sun cruise ships, the Mississippi Queen and the Delta Queen Riverboats and is featured on the soundtrack to the IMAX movie Thrill Ride.

Lee can currently be heard as a leader with The Lee Taylor Quartet, and as a member of Charanga Del Valle, Terra Plena, Tapestry, The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra, The After Five Jazz Quartet, The Pleasure Pilots, The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, and The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.

Lee's diverse musical experience keeps him in demand as a performer and educator. He is currently instructor of woodwinds at Baum's Music in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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