Pete Saberton

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Pete Saberton (born July 9, 1950 in Sheffield , England ; † March 21, 2012 ) was a British jazz pianist , keyboardist , composer and music teacher .

Live and act

Saberton grew up in Sheffield and studied classical piano at the Royal Northern College of Music . He had been active in the British jazz scene since the 1970s, where he initially worked with his friend Pete Hurt ; he achieved his breakthrough on the album The Year of the Buffalo (1984) by saxophonist John Williams , for which he wrote the music that was later performed again by the London Jazz Orchestra . He also worked a. a. with the BBC Radio Big Band , Henry Lowther , Stan Sulzmann , John Taylor , Kenny Wheeler , Eddie Parker , Peter Fairclough , Mike Westbrook and Graham Collier . He also accompanied Mark Murphy , Mel Tormé and Vocal Summitt with Norma Winstone and Urszula Dudziak and led his own bands. He has taught at the Royal Academy of Music , Trinity College of Music, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama .

Discographic notes

  • Eddie Parker Group - Everything You Do to Me ( FMR Records , 1996)
  • Mike Westbrook - The Orchestra of Smith's Academy ( Enja , 1998)
  • The Stan Sulzmann Big Band - Birthdays, Birthdays (Village Life, 1999)
  • Graham Collier - Charles River Fragments (Jazzprint, 2003)
  • Rich Core (2004, with Fred T. Baker , Tony Levin )
  • Mike Westbrook - Fields and Forms ( Musica Jazz , 2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Pete Saberton in British Jazz Interviews
  2. ↑ a b c obituary (English)
  3. ↑ a b c Obituary for Pete Saberton , The Guardian , April 22, 2012
  4. ^ Obituary at Birminghamjazz
personal data
SURNAME Saberton, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saberton, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield , England
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2012