Festa: Tim Whitehead

Festa: Tim Whitehead

Tim has a highly personal and always gorgeous sound on tenor sax and an infinite vocabulary

Tim Whitehead sax, Jonathan Gee piano, Oli Hayhurst bass, Eddie Hick drums

Lawyer turned jazz musician, highly acclaimed Tim Whitehead, is now well known on the British jazz scene. His career goes back forty years when he played with Ian Carr's Nucleus before becoming a member of the prestigious twenty one piece band "Loose Tubes".

Tim brings with him three musicians with their own national reputations, Jonathan Gee, Oli Hayhurst and Eddie Hick who have entertained and enthralled us many times.

“He is a prodigious tenor player whose graceful compositions always rise above the mere technicalities of the conservatoire... amid the crowd of anonymous, garrulous and hard-edged tenor saxophonists, Tim Whitehead's music is marked by a sense of grace and economy.” Clive Davis - The Times

Much more information at http://www.fleecejazz.org.uk/writeuppages/timwhitehead.html