【来日】Fortune Teller Trio (Kenji Lee, Andy Peck, Jonathan Barahal Taylor)

Kenji Lee is a Michigan based, Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist, composer-improviser, arts advocate, and educator merging the intersections of art, community, and equity. As a saxophonist and double-bassist, Lee has performed with many of the leading forces in Jazz and Creative Music including Wayne Horvitz, Robert Hurst, Andrew Bishop, Kayvon Gordon, Mr. B (Mark Braun), Lex Korten, Andy Milne, Dr. Prof. Leonard King, and Marion Hayden.
Lee’s debut full-length album, “Kyudo”, inspired by the Japanese martial art of archery, features his Fortune Teller Trio (Lee on saxophones, Andy Peck on double bass and Jonathan Barahal Taylor on percussion) with special guest, vocalist Estar Cohen. The album was released to critical acclaim and the ensemble was subsequently selected as a featured artist at both the 2023 Detroit International Jazz Festival and Edgefest 28 in Ann Arbor.

Andy Peck studied bass at New England Conservatory with John Lockwood, Cecil McBee and Donald Palma.Later, he was a grad student at University of Michigan under Prof. Robert Hurst. and worked briefly with John Hébert while the latter was on faculty at Western Michigan University. He has played with Eddie Daniels, Donnie McCaslin, Brian Lynch, Andrew Bishop, Jean-Yves Jung, Brad Phillips, Jiggs Whigham and others.

Jonathan Barahal Taylor is a Percussionist, Composer, and Improviser based in Detroit. An avid collaborator, He co-leads a number of diverse projects, Including the art-rock quartet saajtak, Teiku, which reimagines aurally transmitted ancestral Jewish melodies in a Creative Music context, Root Beneath Bones, a solo project for drums and electronics, and Mover, which performs a constantly shifting modular suite of Taylor’s compositions and graphic scores.