Birth name Robert Sedergreen Name Bob Sedergreen Instruments Piano, Keyboards | Years active 1962 to Present Genres Jazz, Blues Website Official Site | |
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Occupation(s) Musician
Teacher
Bandleader Role Pianist · bobsedergreen.com Books Hear Me Talking to Ya: Tales from a Fair Dinkum Jazz Man Similar People Stephen Magnusson, Tony Gould, Allan Browne, Don Burrows, Paul Grabowsky | ||
Associated acts Jimmy Witherspoon | ||
Bob sedergreen and friends beautiful love
Bob Sedergreen (born 1943) is an Australian jazz pianist. Sedergreen has had a long and distinguished career as a performer, bandleader and educator. He has collaborated with leading Australian artists, including John Sangster, Don Burrows, and Brian Brown, and supported some of the biggest names in jazz, including Nat Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie and Milt Jackson.
Contents
- Bob sedergreen and friends beautiful love
- Beth Hart Bob Sedergreen Love Me Two Times 2014
- Biography
- Recent projects
- Awards
- References
Beth Hart & Bob Sedergreen - Love Me Two Times (2014)
Biography
Sedergreen was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1943 to Seamus "Jim" Sedergreen, a British Warrant Officer First Class, and Leah Erlichman, a milliner. In 1947, the British government sent the P&O steam ship Otranto to evacuate all British families, as the British Mandate was coming to an end and Palestine would finally become Israel. Bob, together with his mother, and his sisters Joyce and Millie, settled in London and his father followed in 1948. Bob moved to Australia in November 1951, where he lived in Melbourne and briefly attended Armadale State School before transferring to Haileybury College, a Presbyterian school for boys.
Bob played with the Fred Bradshaw Quartet (1962–70), Ted Vining Trio (1971–2007), Alan Lee's Plant (1973), Brian Brown's Quintet (1974) and Brian Brown's Quartet (1977–79). In the 1980s, he worked with the Australian Jazz Ensemble, Onaje and Peter Gaudion's Blues Express and the popular Blues on the Boil.
Bob has toured extensively both around Australia and overseas, including Montreal, Malaysia and Europe. He has been advisor to the Montsalvat International Jazz Festival and involved in the introduction of new talent as well as negotiating and supervising the Nat Adderley Quintet and the McCoy Tyner Trio.
As an educator, Bob has lectured at the Victorian College of the Arts and the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Music. He has also been an artist-in-residence at many Victorian secondary schools.
To play with Bob Sedergreen has been described as the "ultimate armchair ride".
Pianist Steve Sedergreen and saxophonist Mal Sedergreen are Bob’s sons.
Recent projects
Sedergreen began hourly sets in Melbourne, Australia, in 2007, where he has taken to narration while performing the music of his life, taking time for comments, while still playing in chronological order to entertain the public in a one-man jazz show, called, "Hear Me Talking to Ya". Named after a Nat and Cannonball Adderley tune, and compared to "sitting on a bar stool, hearing a lifetime of jazz stories, Sedergreen's new show has been compared to 'sitting next to Bob on a bar stool hearing a lifetime of jazz stories'.
Similar to a "virtual music book", reviewers continue to take his audience through the progression of his life as a pianist, using wit and his fifty years of experience as a jazz performer to entertain.