Gordon Lee’s Rough Jazz Quartet will be releasing their new DVD this Friday at Jimmy Mak’s.  The DVD features footage from their January Jimmy Mak’s appearance as well as “special video paintings by Charlie Nanos.”  The release concert will feature Gordon Lee on piano, John Gross on saxophone, Alan Jones on drums, and Dave Speranza on bass (subbing for Dan Schulte, who appears on the DVD and original Rough Jazz CD)

Check on Jimmy Mak’s website for reservation and scheduling information.

From Gordon Lee’s Press Release:

On Friday, January 18th, Gordon Lee and the Rough Jazz Quartet featuring Alan Jones on drums, freshly repatriated from Europe, the inimitable John Gross on tenor sax, Dan Schulte on bass and pianist-composer Gordon Lee on piano will perform at Jimmy Mak’s in a special reunion concert. $8 cover. See and hear the band that preceded the Alan Jones Sextet and created what some musicians beleive is one of the best jazz cds of the 1990’s, Rough Jazz. They will perform such notorius GLeeful originals as Loss is Freedom and Tobacco Monkey plus some new tunes.

Now that drummer Alan Jones has returned to Portland, he’s being transitioned back into some of the gigs he was featured on before he moved to Europe four years ago. Next Monday (December 3rd), you can catch Alan at Jimmy Mak’s with Dan Balmer’s Diesel 10, also featuring bassist Jeff Leonard.

In January, keep your eyes open for a reunion concert of Gordon Lee’s Rough Jazz quartet, the group that brought together tenor saxophonist John Gross and Jones.



You can check out what else Alan is up to at alanjonesmusic.com