[2] After leaving school in the 1950s, he began playing professionally at Nottingham's Palais de Danse and other local venues.
[2] Over the years, he also worked with Benny Goodman, Charlie Watts, Scott Hamilton, Buddy Tate, Milt Jackson, Ben Webster, and Digby Fairweather.
Lemon worked as a regular session musician with many groups which were recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in London for broadcast on Sunday night's BBC Radio 1's Sounds of Jazz introduced by Peter Clayton in the early 1970s.
Lemon had a remarkable skill as an accompanist, together with his in-depth knowledge of the classic American song repertoire.
Zephyr was set up by retired businessman John Bune, to specifically record Lemon's work.