Tim Whitehead
“Tim Whitehead...the finest tenor player in Britain today”
Jazz Review
Tim Whitehead is renowned throughout the UK, Europe and the USA as a remarkable performer and composer with a dazzling CV. In the 70’s he toured with Ian Carr’s “Nucleus” and “Graham Collier Music” winning the Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award on the way. In the 80’s he was a member of the ground breaking big band Loose Tubes and in the 90’s he made several critically acclaimed albums, winning The Andrew Milne Award for Jazz, as well as the BBC Music Magazine Jazz Album of the Year. As further testament to his extraordinary talent, in 2009 he was the first ever musician to be made Artist in Residence at Tate Britain, resulting in a number of brilliant gigs, a highly acclaimed album “Colour Beginnings” and a short-listing for the British Composer Of The Year Award. Tonight he will be teaming up with the superb pianist David Gordon and his trio to perform a mix of his and David’s originals, including the appropriately named (check the date…) “The Burning of the Houses Of Parliament” (from Tim’s EFG London Jazz Festival commission "Turner and the Thames") along with some choice jazz standards.
“The finest tenor player in Britain today'' Jazz Review; “A prodigious tenor player whose graceful compositions always rise above....mere technicalities...Tim Whitehead's music is marked by a sense of grace and economy” The Times; “Whitehead is one of the most creative, exciting and passionate saxophonists in Europe” A Rough Guide; "Whitehead is a fundamentally imaginative player. A delight...a special, stimulating night" Oxford Times; "Those of us who have caught him live ... have been left in blinking disbelief. It's not just his mastery of the tenor saxophone, phenomenal though it is, but the absolute conviction of his playing that is so impressive." Observer; "Gordon…one of our most brilliant pianists" London Jazz News