Brian Smith (musician)

Brian Smith ( born January 3, 1939 in Wellington ) is a New Zealand jazz musician ( tenor and alto saxophone, flute, clarinet ).

Brian Smith began in 1958 as a musician in Auckland, where he was a tenor saxophonist with local bands and with foreign musicians who were on tour, played. After a stay in Australia, he went in 1964 to London, where he worked with Humphrey Lyttelton and with Alexis Korner, but also with T -Bone Walker, Alan Price, Annie Ross, Bing Crosby, Mark Murphy, Jon Hendricks, John Dankworth, Gordon Beck and Tubby Hayes played. As a studio musician, he worked for The Small Faces, Donovan, Sandie Shaw and Lulu.

In 1969 he became a member of the band of Maynard Ferguson, in which he toured until 1975 and was involved in recordings. At the same time he was involved in the founding of Ian Carr's Nucleus fusion band, with which he appeared at festivals in Montreux and Newport and on extensive tours in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. He was - apart from two interruptions - until 1982 at the nucleus and is involved in ten albums of the band. He also worked for Mike Gibbs, Keith Tippett, Nancy Wilson, Eartha Kitt, Dusty Springfield, Bobby Shew, and John Scofield.

Smith came back to New Zealand in 1982, where he remained active as a musician. He worked with his own quartet and trio, in the band of drummer Frank Gibson ( Space Case ) and Beaver Morrison, but also as a teacher and studio musician. His album Southern Excursion ( with Geoff Castle, 1982) declared there to the "Album of the Year". His two albums Moonlight Sax ( 1990) and Moonlight Sax 2 (1991 ) were very successful in New Zealand, and reached the top position in the charts and even platinum status there.

The one with his wife Irene lives in Whangaparaoa Smith also writes television and film scores ( " Came a Hot Friday", "Shaker Run", " gloss ", " Plainclothes ", "Front Line"). In 2008 he toured with Georgie Fame.

Lexigraphic entries

  • Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley: Jazz Rough Guide. Stuttgart 1999.

Weblink

  • Works by Brian Smith in the catalog that German national library
  • Website by Brain Smith
  • Jazz saxophonist
  • Jazz flutist
  • Film composer
  • New Zealand artists
  • Born in 1939
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