Joe Lee Wilson (22. Dezember 1935 – 17. Juli 2011)
John Fordham zitiert in seinem Nachruf im Guardian Val Wilmer:
Val Wilmer writes: Joe Lee Wilson was a man with a sense of history and a generous person who shared whatever he made. When we met in New York in the early 1970s, he was singing at Trude Heller’s, the epitome of Greenwich Village sophistication, and recording with Archie Shepp. At the Ladies‘ Fort some time later, he featured mainstream musicians including Count Basie, the saxophonist Frank Foster and his hero, Eddie Jefferson, as well as free players: Earl Cross, Monte Waters, Hakim Jami and Benny Wilson.
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