Lee Anne Ames, Saxophonist
Soprano, Alto and Tenor
Photo Credit Christine L. McKenney
Shows
Mon, Sep 14 — Foreside Funk · Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club, Portsmouth NH · 7 PM
Fri, Sept 18 - Krimson Krewe · Biederman’s, Plymouth, NH 6 - 8:30 PM
Tue, Oct 6 — Krimson Krewe · Hermanos, Concord NH · 6 PM
Tue, Nov 3 — Krimson Krewe · Hermanos, Concord NH · 6 PM
Fri, Nov 20 - Krimson Krewe · Biederman’s, Plymouth, NH 6 - 8:30 PM
Tue, Dec 1 — Krimson Krewe · Hermanos, Concord NH · 6 PM
Sat, Dec 12 — Foreside Funk · Blue, Portland, ME · 7 PM
Thurs, Jan 21, 2027 — Chloe Green and Particles and Waves Band · Portsmouth Music Hall Lounge, Portsmouth, NH · 7:30 PM
Thurs, Jan 28, 2027 - Chloe Green and Particles and Waves Band at Passim, Cambridge, MA
Fri, Feb 19, 2027 - The Lo-I and Friends, The Burren, Sommerville, MA
Photo Credit - James Jay Fortin
Listen & Watch
Particles & 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