Kenji Lee Fortune Teller Trio

Genre: Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz

For fans of jazz and creative music alike, the Kenji Lee Fortune Teller Trio is essential viewing. Lee is a Japanese-American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser, whose work seeks to embody the vitality of experimentalism while staying rooted in historical practices. His personal approach fuses a trans-idiomatic vocabulary with rich instrumental technique, garnering the well-deserved attention of audiences and fellow artists alike. He performed at the beloved Detroit Jazz Fest in 2023 and was a featured performer at Ann Arbor’s own Edgefest the following year. He currently leads the Fortune Teller Trio with bassist Andy Peck and percussionist Jonathan Barahal Taylor. In 2023, he released his debut full-length album, Kyūdō, named after the Japanese martial art of archery. Released to critical acclaim, the album drew praise from reviewers, with one writing: “Lee achieved the principles of truth, goodness, and beauty with his music.” Experience that truth, goodness, and beauty live for yourself at A2SF this summer!