Instruments Tenor saxophone, Name Alan Skidmore | Genres Jazz | |
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Birth name Alan Richard James Skidmore Born 21 April 1942 (age 81)
London, England ( 1942-04-21 ) Role Musical Artist · alanskidmore.info Music groups Soft Machine, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Centipede Albums Wake Up Call, Blues Breakers with Eric, Softs, A Hard Road, Bare Wires Similar People John Surman, Elton Dean, Peter King, Harry Miller, Keith Tippett | ||
Alan skidmore uk 1970 once upon a time full album
Alan Richard James Skidmore (born 21 April 1942 in London) is a jazz tenor saxophonist and the son of saxophonist Jimmy Skidmore.
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- Alan skidmore uk 1970 once upon a time full album
- Say It Over and Over Again
- Music career
- Discography
- References
Say It (Over and Over Again)
Music career
Skidmore began his professional career at 16 and early in his career toured with comedian Tony Hancock. In the mid to late 1960s he worked with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Ronnie Scott's band. In the 1970s, he was part of Keith Tippett's jazz fusion big band Centipede and worked with Soft Machine, The Nice, Graham Collier, Brotherhood of Breath, Mike Gibbs, Elton Dean, Kate Bush, and Curved Air. He has worked with Chick Corea, Alexis Korner, Georgie Fame, and Van Morrison. In 1977 he was in Lala Kovačev's avant-garde jazz quartet European Jazz Consensus with Gerd Dudek and Adelhard Roidinger. The group released two albums the same year entitled Four for Slavia and Morning Rise.
His first solo album was 1969's Once Upon a Time and on this and his other albums a strong John Coltrane influence can be heard, especially on his 1988 album Tribute to 'trane, and 1998's After the Rain, orchestral settings of tunes that had been recorded (and some of them written) by Coltrane. In 1973 he co-founded the all-saxophone ensemble S.O.S. with John Surman and Mike Osborne. At the end of the Apartheid regime he went to South Africa to record with musicians from the percussion group Amampondo, including pianist Simpiwe Matole, playing modern jazz over a texture of African percussion and chants.
Discography
With Amampondo
With Graham Collier