John Lee, Co-Founder. Bassist,
composer, educator and producer,
John Lee also serves executive director of the Dizzy Gillespie™
All-Stars and All-Stars Big Band with whom he performs regularly. In
2008, with partner Lisa Broderick, John formed the record label Jazz
Legacy Productions.
The son of an A.M.E. minister, John's earliest musical impressions
were formed in church and from listening to his father's extensive
jazz collection. In 1970, after graduating from high school in
Philadelphia, he enrolled at the Philadelphia Musical Academy (now
the University of the Arts). During this period he began performing
in New York City, and touring the United States with the bands of
Carlos Garnett, Joe Henderson and Pharaoh Sanders. In 1972, John was
hired as bassist for the Max Roach Quartet. Later that year he moved
to Europe and stayed for two years. During this time abroad, he
worked and recorded with Gary Bartz, Philip Catherine, Joe
Henderson, Chris Hinze, Jasper Van'T Hof, Joachim Kuhn, Charlie
Mariano and Toots Thielemans. With drummer Gerry Brown he recorded
his first solo effort entitled "Infinite Jones" for the Keytone
label, which has been re-released as “Bamboo Madness” on the
Limetree label. After returning to the United States in 1974, John
worked with the bands of Norman Connors, Gil Evans, Joe Henderson
and Lonnie Liston Smith.
In 1975, he joined Larry Coryell's
Eleventh House while also forming his own band with drummer Gerry
Brown. Together they recorded two albums for Blue Note Records,
“Mango Sunrise” & “ Still Can’t Say Enough”; two for Columbia
Records, “Medusa” & “Chaser”; and one for Mood Records called
“Brothers”. The long personal and professional association that
ensued was to be a turning point in Lee’s career. From 1984 until
Dizzy died in 1993, John was the bassist in the trumpet master’s
various bands including the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, the 70th
Anniversary Big Band and the United Nation Orchestra. After Dizzy’s
passing, the family asked John to create an ongoing tribute to the
legendary man and his music—and the concept for the Dizzy
Gillespie™Alumni All-Stars was born. John has personally engineers
many of the projects produced by his company and has worked with a
select group of clients including Nat Adderley Jr., Don Braden,
Cecil Brooks III, Roberta Gambarini, Roy Hargrove, Hank Jones, Bill
Kirchner, Mack Avenue Records, Benny Powell, and CD101.9. His
production credits include CDs for the Fantasy Band, the Heath
Brothers, Cyrus Chestnut, Larry Coryell, Steve Davis, Carlos
Garnett, Slide Hampton, Jon Lucien, One for All, Claudio Roditi,
Saundra Santiago, Art Webb, the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars,
and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band.
Lisa Broderick,
Co-Founder, Executive Producer. An active
small-company business executive for the last 25 years, Lisa also
serves as Managing Partner of Conversus Group, a management
consulting firm she founded in 2001. Lisa has served as chief
executive officer and chief financial officer for such corporate
investors as GE Capital and News Corporation. She has extensive
experience in change management, business development, finance and
capital-raising.
At SpaFinder.com Inc., serving as Chief Financial
Officer, Ms. Broderick was a member of the senior management team
brought in to transform the company from an old-economy travel
information and booking service into a new economy content provider
and portal for wellness and the wellness lifestyle. Lisa raised the
company’s first round of financing, aided in the hiring of the
senior management team, developed the company’s business model and
brought in professional services firms to support the company’s
infrastructure.
At PenOp, Inc., Ms. Broderick was Chief Executive
Officer, where she was responsible for transforming the company from
a UK-based biometric security software provider into a US-based,
Internet-centric security encryption firm. She hired the senior
management team, raised additional rounds of capital, and
re-formulated the company to position it to take advantage of
opportunities arising out of the Internet marketplace.
At Honicorp, Inc., Ms. Broderick served as CEO,
overseeing the turnaround of this GE Capital-funded software
company. A major element in driving this change was a comprehensive
strategic review and assessment process, which helped investors to
understand the company’s strengths, weaknesses and assets.
Ms. Broderick has extensive experience helping
management teams focus on the problems and issues facing them, and
motivating them to devise plans and approaches necessary to address
those needs. She has implemented integrated transformation efforts
for a wide range of organizations, the results being wholesale
change within every facet of business. As a consultant, Ms.
Broderick emphasizes strategic change leadership and integrated
transformation methodologies.
Ms. Broderick grew up in Phoenix and Palo Alto.
She attended Stanford University from which she received a BA degree
in Economics. She holds an MBA in global finance and marketing from
Duke University.
Frank Moten, Vice
President
of Operations. Frank is the
Founder/CEO of OURGIG.COM – a
publicity, marketing, and website solutions company that has
been providing the highest quality and affordable solutions since early 2000.
His career includes a vast technical leadership of
startup/expansion/turnaround efforts for advertising, cosmetics,
report distribution, internet, media and telecommunications
companies and firms located throughout North
America and Europe.
Moten’s areas of
expertise includes: technical analysis, software development, cost
analysis, operations planning and assessment, equipment acquisition,
quality assurance of application design and implementation, vendor
selection & negotiations, outsourcing and full lifecycle project
management.
Throughout
Moten’s life, his relationships in music have always been his most
valued. Whether as a musician and producer himself, or through the
vast relationships developed from his father’s ownership of a world
famous Harlem Nightclub, to the extremely close relationships that
he forged with all stars such as John Birks, ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie and
the legends of musicians that share Frank's devotion to the music.
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