Pete Christlieb

Pete Christlieb ( born February 16, 1945 in San Francisco ) is an American musician (tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet and bass clarinet) of modern jazz, which is mainly active as a studio musician.

Life and work

Christlieb comes from a musical family and received violin lessons from the age of seven. In high school, he studied saxophone, and then to deal with on the college music theory and composition. 1963 and 1964 he played with Jerry Gray, then at Chet Baker and Si Zentner, before he gained big band experience with Woody Herman, Louis Bellson and at short even with Count Basie. Subsequently, he was active as a studio musician and took over for Elvis Presley, Diane Schuur, Tom Waits and Steely Dan on as well as Sarah Vaughn, Shelly Manne, Quincy Jones, Ray Barretto or Rosemary Clooney. From 1972 to 1992, he joined as a member of the band of Doc Severinsen in the Tonight Show on. Since 1971, he put again before his own jazz publications. His creativity he put loud Kunzler particularly on several recordings by the quartet and quintet with Warne Marsh (about Apogee of 1979) to the test. He currently leads his own quartet and a Tentet, The Tall and Small Group and works regularly with Bill Holman.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Conversations with Warne, Vol.1 & 2 ( Criss Cross, 1978)
• Going My Way ( 1982)
• Late Night Jazz ( 2000)

Lexigraphic entries

• Martin Kunzler: Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 1 Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002; ISBN 3-499-16512-0