Tim Whitehead
post-bop contemporary jazz
Influences: John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz
Tim Whitehead is a tenor saxophonist and composer, widely regarded as one of Britain's finest tenor players, with a career spanning Ian Carr's Nucleus, Graham Collier's band, and the big band Loose Tubes. His music pairs lyrical, graceful compositions with muscular, passionate improvisation. Worth seeing for his 2009 appointment as the first ever Artist in Residence at Tate Britain, which produced the acclaimed album "Colour Beginnings."
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- Tue 15 Dec — 20:00 — Tim Whitehead at 606 Club