Joe Lee Wilson (December 22, 1935 – July 17, 2011)[1] was an American jazz singer from Bristow, Oklahoma, who lived in Europe since 1977.
Relocating to New York in 1962,[2] he worked with Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Freddie Hubbard, and Jackie McLean.
During the 1970s, Wilson operated a jazz performance loft in New York's NoHo district known as the Ladies' Fort at 2 Bond Street.
His regular band, Joe Lee Wilson Plus 5, featured the alto saxophonist Monty Waters (from Modesto, California) and for several years the Japanese guitarist Ryo Kawasaki, before the latter left to lead his own group.
The live shot was released as an album, Livin' High Off Nickels & Dimes, on the short-lived Oblivion Records in New York.