Frank St. Peter

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Frank St. Peter (* 1937 in Pawtucket , Rhode Island , † 1987 in Munich ) was an American jazz musician ( alto saxophone , flute , arrangement , composition ).

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At the age of 11, St. Peter received an alto saxophone from his father, who himself played the tenor saxophone, and his first clarinet two years later. He played in high school bands until he studied composition with Jaki Byard at Boston University in 1955 . After graduating in 1959, Frank played in various show bands in New York, and in 1961 Frank led his own big band, with which he performed on Mondays at the Golden Vanity Coffee House on the Boston waterfront. He returned to New York a year later to join Don Ellis ' big band . From 1964 to 1966 Frank was constantly on the road with Si Zentner and accompanied singers such as Mel Tormé and Nancy Wilson . In 1966 he moved to Los Angeles to work with Billy Eckstine .

St. Peter then toured Europe with the Beach Boys in 1967 and at the end of the tour decided to stay in Berlin. There he founded a quintet with Joe Nay and Fritz Pauer . In 1968 Hans Koller offered him a one-year engagement as a theater musician at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg in his sextet . He also belonged to Free Orbit and wrote the arrangements for Udo Lindenberg's songs; He also accompanied Dagmar Krause and Inga Rumpf with the ID Company and played in a quintet with Leszek Zadlo .

In 1970 St. Peter moved to Munich, where he firmly established himself in the jazz scene and played with Dusko Goykovich , Ken Rhodes , Mal Waldron , Joe Haider and Klaus Weiss . Together with Larry Porter and Alex Bally he led the group Music Community , in which Lee Harper , Leszek Zadlo, Rudi Fuesers and Hermann Breuer played and with which he took part in numerous jazz festivals in Europe. Wolfgang Dauner brought him to the Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart , Günter Lenz to his Springtime , with which he recorded two albums. St. Peter founded his own quartet with which he toured Europe until the early 1980s. In 1979 he performed with the Unique Munich Saxophone Choir ( Roman Schwaller , Erica Lindsay , Leszek Zadlo , Roger Janotta , Thomas Faist and Joe Nay) at the Donaueschinger Musiktage . From 1984 he concentrated on arranging and composing; In 1985 he founded the big band Different Faces , with which he performed his compositions. His works were later recorded by the Big Band Burghausen under the direction of Al Porcino ( Goodbye to a Friend , 1995); they were also brought back to life by the Munich Uptown Jazz Orchestra .

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  1. ↑ M. Scheiner Jazz in Burghausen II Jazzzeitung 10/2000
  2. ^ Uptown Jazz Orchestra
personal data
SURNAME St. Peter, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (alto saxophone, flute, arrangement, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Pawtucket , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH 1987
Place of death Munich