Denys Baptiste

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Denys Baptiste (born September 14, 1969 in London ) is a British jazz musician ( soprano saxophone , tenor saxophone ) of the Modern Creative .

Live and act

Baptiste became known in the 1990s as a member of the bands of Gary Crosby ( Jazz Jamaica Allstars ), Alex Wilson , Guy Barker and Tim Richards ' formation Spirit Level , before he recorded his first album under his own name in 1999, Be Where You Are , the was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and won the MOBO Award for Best Jazz Act 1999.

Baptiste then recorded two more albums; in September 2003 his third album Let Freedom Ring! . In the form of a four-part suite - role models are Charles Mingus and Carla Bley - it incorporates the famous 1965 speech by Martin Luther King . In 2004 it was nominated for the MOBO Award for Best Jazz Event; It also received the 2004 BBC Jazz Awards for Best New Work and Best Album and the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Best Album 2004.

Discographic notes

Be Where You Are ( Dune Records , 1999)
Alternating currents (Dune, 2001)
Let Freedom Ring! (Dune, 2003)
Identity by Subtraction (2010)
The Late Trane (2017)

literature

Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Alyn Shipton: Biography of Jazz Jamaica All Stars . In: The Times . Retrieved January 11, 2008.

personal data
SURNAME	Baptiste, Denys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	London

[Times-1] Alyn Shipton: Biography of Jazz Jamaica All Stars . In: The Times . Retrieved January 11, 2008.