 He played as a regular for many years with a his trio comprising bassist Tony Archer and drummer Martin Drew or Terry Jenkins at The Bull's Head in Barnes, South West London, a few miles from his home in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey.During a visit by the former Count Basie tenor-saxophonist Billy Mitchell who came to play at the Bull's Head, both Mitchell and Lee got on so well together that the Bull's Dan Fleming organised for both of them to tour in the US in 1984.Fleming said at the time, "Lee could bring out the best in everybody and he drew you into the music."