Lee Anne Ames, Saxophonist
Soprano, Alto and Tenor
Photo Credit Christine L. McKenney
Shows
Tue, Jul 7 — Krimson Krewe · Hermanos, Concord NH · 7 PM
Fri, Jul 31 — Foreside Funk · Vinegar Hill Music Theatre, Arundel ME · 8 PM — Tickets
Tue, Aug 4 — Krimson Krewe · Hermanos, Concord NH · 7 PM
Wed, Aug 19 — Krimson Krewe · Concord Library Series at Bicentennial Square, Concord NH · 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Tue, Sep 1 — Krimson Krewe · Hermanos, Concord NH · 7 PM
Mon, Sep 14 — Foreside Funk · Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club, Portsmouth NH · 7 PM
Tue, Oct 6 — Krimson Krewe · Hermanos, Concord NH · 7 PM
Photo Credit - James Jay Fortin
Listen & Watch
Patricles & Waves with Chloe Green at Sonidos, Boston
About
Lee Anne Ames is a saxophonist and vocalist whose work moves freely across jazz, swing, and funk. A 1999 graduate of The New School’s Jazz Performance program, she performed as lead alto alongside Joe Chambers at the Cape May Jazz Festival and held the first tenor chair in the New School’s Bobby Sanabria Afro-Cuban Big Band at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York’s East Village.
She also lived in Puerto Rico, where she immersed herself in salsa and plena and shared the stage with the late, great trumpeter Juancito Torres.
After moving to New Hampshire, Lee Anne became part of the region’s live-music scene, performing with the Lakes Region Big Band and the all-female Swing A Cat band on tenor saxophone and clarinet. For eleven years she played winds and frequently sang lead with Honest Millie, a band that revived the close-harmony swing of the 1930s in the spirit of the Boswell Sisters.
Today she plays across a range of projects: tenor and soprano with the New Orleans-inspired Krimson Krewe, alto with Foreside Funk, and soprano and tenor alongside Boston singer-songwriter Chloe Green as part of the new Particles and Waves band.
Photo Credit - Christine L. McKenney