Len Skeat

Len Skeat (born February 9, 1937 in London ) is a British double bass player of mainstream jazz .

Live and act

Skeat, whose older brother Bill Skeat was active as a saxophonist on the British jazz scene , played with Ted Heath and since the early 1960s in Eddie Thompson's trio ; he accompanied Thompson until his death in 1986. He also played with Stéphane Grappelli and American guest soloists such as Ruby Braff , Ben Webster , Billy Eckstine , Lionel Hampton , Scott Hamilton , Helen Merrill , Harry Edison , Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Lou Rawls .

With Digby Fairweather , Ike Isaacs and Denny Wright he could also be heard in the formation Velvet in the 1970s and appeared regularly on the Pizza Express in Soho . In the USA he played with Bobby Rosengarden's band . He also regularly belonged to the rhythm groups on the albums of Nagel-Heyer Records , for example with Danny Moss or Harry Allen . As a member of Charly Antolini's Jazz Power , he performed more frequently in Central Europe in the early 1990s.

Bill Watrous In London (1982)
Spike Robinson - Eddie Thompson Trio At Chesters Volumes 1 & 2 ( Hep Records , 1984)
Spike Robinson: The Gershwin Collection (Hep Records, 1987)
Charly Antolini Jazz Power: Cookin ' ( L + R Records , 1989)
Charly Antolini Meets Dick Morrissey (1990)

Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X .

personal data
SURNAME	Skeat, Len
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	London