Kathleen Stobart

b. Florence Kathleen Stobart, 1 Apr 1925, South Shields, Co. Durham, Britain, d. 5 July 2014. Stobart in her lengthy career as a respected jazz saxophonist documented and used countless top music artists, yet her very own recorded result was relatively sparse. From her professional debut at age 14 she ultimately transferred to London where function was more abundant, playing with Artwork Pepper (a serviceman) even though posted in the united kingdom during the battle. Carrying out a spell using the Vic Lewis big music group during the past due ’40s Stobart wedded trumpeter Bert Courtley and produced her own music group in the first ’50s. Her function over a long time with Humphrey Lyttelton created a few of her finest playing and Lyttelton rightly viewed her being a world-class musician. Her various other credits include use Johnny Griffin, Al Haig, Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines, Pal Tate, Zoot Sims, Harry Beckett and Dick Hyman. Stobart topped the costs at the initial British females’s jazz celebration in 1982 and was an associate of Gail Push 17 (the ladies’s big music group) through the middle-’80s. Additionally she produced a reputation like a music instructor. Still refusing to retire from the street, she was on tour with Lyttelton once again through the entire ’90s. She passed away on 5 July 2014 at age 89.