Tim Whitehead
Tim played alto saxophone on Little Bird, First Flight, Coconuts and Dolphins, Monkeys and Little Bird Reprise. He was born in Liverpool in 1950 and is the son of one of the original writers of Dennis the Menace, the children's comic. He started playing the clarinet at school and is now a world-renowned jazz musician. In the 70's he toured with Ian Carr's Nucleus and Graham Collier Music and won the Young Jazz Musicians of the Year Award with his own band 'South of the Border' in 1977. He was a member of the groundbreaking big band 'Loose Tubes'.
In the 90's he recorded Authentic and Silence Between Waves, on Ronnie Scott's Jazz House Label and received The Andrew Milne Award for Jazz. In 1999 Tim released Personal Standards, an album of soul and pop tunes arranged for jazz quartet, which was Jazz Album of the Year in the BBC Music Magazine, and led to an educational project at Trinity College of Music. Tim is currently working in the studio on a new album with Colin Riley and The HomeMade Orchestra, which features the 'Nonsense' poetry of Children's Laureate Michael Rosen. The project will be performed live with Michael and is due for tour in 2008/9.
For more information about Tim Whitehead, visit: http://www.timwhitehead.co.uk.
Youth Music
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