Kate Westbrook (musician)

Kate Westbrook ( born September 18, 1939 in Guildford, England as Kate Barnard ) is a British jazz musician (vocals, tenor horn, flute) and painter.

Life and work

Westbrook attended Dartington Hall School and studied painting in Bath, Reading and London. She then lived as a painter in the United States; she had her first solo exhibition in 1963 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in 1964, she returned back to the UK to teach at Leeds College of Art and Design. In 1974 she joined, although as a self-taught musician, the Mike Westbrook Brass Band and was lecturing on in order to concentrate on music and painting. She married Westbrook and then worked in the projects, as in 1984 at his Ellington tribute On Duke's Birthday. In these projects is the compelling musical theater performer not only soloist and ensemble musician, but also acts as a copywriter. In addition, she organized the theater and television productions of the various productions of the Westbrook Band.

In 1991, she recorded a tribute album to the actor Peter Lorre, on which she interpreted her husband and the Hollywood Elegies by Eisler and Brecht compositions. More solo productions with his own ensembles followed in recent years.

She also played in the 1970's as a guest soloist with the Orchestra of the RAI in Rome and the Radio Orchestra Zurich. During the 1980s she worked repeatedly for Lindsay Cooper. She also sang the role of Anna in performances of Weill's " Seven Deadly Sins of the petty bourgeois " with the London Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she appeared again and again in projects of Heribert Leuchter.

Discography (selection)

  • The Nijinska Chamber (2006, with Karen Street)
  • Cuff Clout (2004, with Chris Biscoe, Barbara Thompson, Peter King, Mike Carr, Peter Lemer, Jon Hiseman, Laka Daisical etc.)
  • Good Friday 1663 ( with Jon Hisemann, Barbara Thompson and others)
  • Goodbye Peter Lorre (1991/2004, with John Alley, Mike Westbrook and the vocal group Fine Trash )

Lexigraphic entries

  • Ian Carr et al Jazz Rough Guide Metzler, Stuttgart 1999; ISBN 3-476-01584- X
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