Nick Webb

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Nicholas "Nick" Webb (* 1954 in Manchester , † February 5, 1998 in London ) was a British jazz guitarist and composer in the field of smooth jazz and New Age .

Webb was a nephew of actress Sylvia Syms and had as a child actor with her and Tony Hancock in the 1963 feature film The Punch and Judy Man . As a teenager he performed as a folk singer and studied at Leeds College of Music, then briefly literature in London before he switched to music full-time. With Greg Carmichael he founded the jazz formation Acoustic Alchemy in 1987 , with whom they recorded the debut album Red Dust and Spanish Lace for MCA . The band became successful in 1990 after switching to the GRP Records label , which led to two Grammy nominations, for the song Caravan of Dreams (from the album Reference Point , 1991) and for the album Arcanum from 1996. Webb died at the age of 43 a pancreatic tumor . In 2007 the tribute album Into the Rainbow: A Tribute to Nick Webb (Prestige) was released.

Discographic notes

  • Acoustic Alchemy - Reference Point (GRP, 1991) with Randy Brecker
  • Acoustic Alchemy - Against the Grain (GRP, 1994)
  • Acoustic Alchemy - Positive Thinking (GRP, 1998)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary (1998) in ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Washington Post @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  2. ↑ Nick Webb in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ Into the Rainbow: A Tribute to Nick Webb at Allmusic (English). Retrieved July 13, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Webb, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Webb, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz guitarist and composer in the field of smooth jazz and New Age
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1998
Place of death London