noted jazz singer Joe Lee Wilson has died in France. He was 75.
Wilson was born on a farm in Bristow in 1935 and went to Los Angeles to first study classical singing. He later switched to study jazz and went onto a career in which he performed with some of the greats in the jazz world...Miles Davis, Lee Morgan and Sonny Rollins. Wilson later opened a jazz club in New York City then moved to Europe in the late 70s.
Survivors include his wife Jill and daughter Naima.
Source: The Twister
