Jimmy Skidmore

b. Wayne Richard Skidmore, 8 Feb 1916, London, Britain, d. 22 Apr 1998, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, Britain. After teaching himself to try out tenor saxophone when he was 20, Skidmore used Harry Parry, George Shearing as well as others, getting especially mixed up in years rigtht after World Battle II. He drawn attention as an associate from the Vic Lewis Jazzmen and in the 50s used Kenny Baker and Humphrey Lyttelton, developing area of the second option’s non-traditionalist saxophone line-up alongside Tony Coe and Joe Temperley. Through the 60s and 70s he continuing to surface in night clubs but with diminishing rate of recurrence. A combined mix of changing musical occasions and his personal casual method of his music militated against the achievement his skill deserved. Actually, it had been his child Alan Skidmore who obtained the lion’s talk about of public interest from your middle-60s onwards. In the middle-80s he still performed in the London region and apparently required the jazz globe a bit more significantly than he previously before. He celebrated his 80th birthday by showing up alongside his child.