Swing Lee -- Chicago jazz saxophonist of the 1950s

[Larry Kart]

or anything further about him? A fellow Chicago saxophonist of that time had asked me to inquire.

[Chuck Nessa]

Swing Lee O'Neill plays tenor on a Verro date by Billy Butler recorded in Chicago.

Swing Lee is also the title of a tune on the Yusef Lareef/Von Freeman cd.

He probably shows up as Swingley O'Neal in the John Young chapter of Dempsey Travis' An Autobiography of Black Jazz.

Edited July 24, 2009 by Chuck Nessa

[Larry Kart]

Thanks. It was Charles Davis who wanted to know.

[Larry Kart]

Passed on the information to Davis, who also said thanks and added that he wanted to know because All About Jazz is doing a feature on him (i.e, Davis), in which he said that Swing Lee was one of his early influences. Davis knew him only by that name, though, and wanted to properly identify him if possible.