Growing up in New Orleans, during the 1960s David Lee Jr. became a part of the city's thriving rhythm and blues scene playing sessions with everyone from Eddie Bo to Willie Tee, before moving to New York in the 1970s as part of Roy Ayer's group and also working with Lonnie Liston Smith, Harold Alexander, Leon Thomas and many other talented artists as a session drummer, recording for radical independent labels such as Flying Dutchman, Strata-East and India Navigation. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.