Tony Lee (born Anthony Leedham Lee; 23 July 1934 – 2 March 2004) was a British jazz pianist, who played with Tommy Whittle, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, Barney Kessel, Sonny Stitt, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Terry Smith, Tubby Hayes, Dick Morrissey and the drummer Phil Seamen.
He played as a regular for many years with a trio comprising bassist Tony Archer and drummer Martin Drew or Terry Jenkins at The Bull's Head in Barnes, London, a few miles from his home in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey.
He was arguably the greatest British exponent of the heavily copied Erroll Garner piano style, though his playing embraced a much wider compass.
1), probably the quintessential album of his career (1976), Street of Dreams (1979), Hey There (1992) and The Tony Lee Trio Live at the Station (2002), prior to his death from cancer in 2004.
Lee and Archer also played together in the sextet The Best of British Jazz formed in the early 1970s with Jack Parnell (drums), Kenny Baker (trumpet), Don Lusher (trombone) and Betty Smith (tenor sax).