Martin Speake

Alto saxophonist Martin Speake was created in 1958 in Barnet, Britain, where his youth present him surrounded by music. He was attracted initially towards the rock and roll and pop music of your day, but soon after he still left school at age 16, Speake bought an alto saxophone after hearing an record by Ornette Coleman, as well as the span of his lifestyle being a jazz horn participant became established. He studied traditional saxophone at Southgate Techie University and Trinity University of Music from 1977 to 1981, and he started gigging with various other musicians, especially the sax quartet Itchy Fingertips, who toured thoroughly in America, SOUTH USA, and Africa. Speake still left Itchy Fingertips in 1988 and started focusing on his very own projects, a lot of that have been carried out beneath the auspices from the Martin Speake Group. He also proved helpful within duos with Phil Lee, Nikki Iles, Dharambir Singh, among others, aswell as taking part in the Fever Pitch, Brain and Period, and Eternal Triangle ensembles. His many albums and tasks consist of Tan T’ien (1996), Trust (1998), Trip (2004), and Transformation of Heart, released in 2006 on ECM Information.