Len Skeat

b. 9 Feb 1937, London, Britain. After playing bass using the Ted Heath music group, Skeat started widening his musical basis by employed in several contexts. One of the performers with whom he spent some time working are performers Tom Jones and Peggy Lee, tenor saxophonists Al Cohn, Spike Robinson and Tommy Whittle, the Pizza Express All Superstars, trumpeters Ruby Braff and Digby Fairweather and violinist Stéphane Grappelli. A get good at specialist, Skeat exemplifies the fantastic custom of mainstream bass-playing as well as the invariably top quality of his shows ranks with the very best. His large workload through the entire 70s and 80s resulted in ill wellness but, following a main procedure in 1990, he was back again at work, very easily offering the immaculate timekeeping and rhythmic pulse that he’s known.