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Her career started soon after her dance studies at Bard College , ( BA , 1961). That year, she recorded ''The Newest Sound Around'' with fellow Bard student, Ran Blake . {Link without Title} Particularly during the 1960s and 1970s, she recorded her distinctively independent and creative style either as a lead artist or a sidewoman for major performers of the jazz avant garde on independent labels in America and Europe. These labels included Birth, , Anthony Braxton , Rahsaan Roland Kirk , Mal Waldron , Enrico Rava , Andrew Cyrille and John Cage . She had a major role in Carla Bley 's magnum opus, '' Escalator Over The Hill '' (1971). {Link without Title} . She passed away from Cancer in 2000 in Tijuana, Mexico . [http://www.newmusicbox.org/news/dec00/jeannelee.html PARTIAL DISCOGRAPHY
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