Alan Skidmore

b. Alan Richard Adam Skidmore, 21 Apr 1942, Kingston-on-Thames, London, Britain. ‘Skid’ performs soprano and tenor saxophones, flutes and drums. He’s the boy of Jimmy Skidmore, who provided him a discarded tenor that Alan disregarded until he was about 15. In those days he made a decision to instruct himself to try out. A muscular and flexible participant himself, the music artists he especially admires consist of Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Michael Brecker, Ronnie Scott, Andy Sheppard and, most importantly, John Coltrane. Skidmore started playing expertly in 1958, and do various industrial engagements, including trips with comedian Tony Hancock and vocalist Matt Monro and five years inside your home music group at London’s Chat Of THE CITY nightclub. In 1961 he produced the to begin many looks on BBC Radio’s Jazz Golf club, and also fulfilled his idol, Coltrane. In the next years Skidmore caused numerous essential and/or successful rings, including Eric Delaney, where he changed his dad when Jimmy made a decision to keep (in 1963), Alexis Korner (1964), John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (1964), Ronnie Scott (1965), Georgie Popularity AS WELL AS THE Blue Flames (1970), Mike Westbrook (1970-71), Mike Gibbs (1970-71), and Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood Of Breathing (1971). In 1969, he shaped his very own quintet (Kenny Wheeler, Tony Oxley, John Taylor and Harry Miller), with which he earned the very best soloist and greatest band awards on the Montreux International Jazz Celebration and obtained a scholarship or grant to Berklee University Of Music, although he didn’t consider this up. In 1973, he co-founded S.O.S., most likely the initial all-saxophone music group, with Mike Osborne and John Surman. He provides subsequently formed different small sets of his very own, including Un Skid (co-led with Elton Dean), SOH, and Tenor Tonic, and spent some time working using the George Gruntz Concert Music group, the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine, the Charlie W Orchestra, Stan Tracey, Mose Allison, Truck Morrison, Georgie Popularity once again, and with the Western world German Radio Music group as highlighted soloist from 1981-84. In Apr 1991, he was reunited with Surman if they played being a duo at an advantage for Osborne. In 2002 he was once more blowing some wonderful saxophone for Georgie Popularity AS WELL AS THE Blue Flames. Definitely one of the better jazz saxophonists Britain provides ever produced.