Ray Warleigh

Ray Warleigh ( born September 28, 1938 in Sydney ) is an Australian jazz saxophonist and flautist -.

Warleigh began, inspired by Paul Desmond, professionally playing jazz music in the late 1950s. In 1960 he came to England, where he first, and later worked with Michael Gibbs and Alexis Korner with Tubby Hayes, Humphrey Lyttelton, Ronnie Scott and Mike Westbrook. In 1968 he released his first album under the title Ray Warleigh 's First Album ( with Gordon Beck, Terry Cox, Dave Goldberg, George Kish, Kenny Napper, Ronnie Stephenson ).

He participated as a sideman on recordings by Long John Baldry, Nick Drake, John Mayall Champion Jack Dupree, Annette Peacock, Beaver Morrison and Georgie Fame and was in the 1970s a member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble by John Stevens. He also worked with guitarist Allan Holdsworth, was a member of the Latin Band Paz and took on their own albums.

In the 1980s he played among others with the WDR Radio Orchestra and the big band of Charlie Watts, drummer for the Rolling Stones. In the 1990s he continued to work with its own quartet and played recordings with Kenny Wheeler and the classical composer Gavin Bryars one.

With the album Rue Victor Massé, appeared on the label Psi, he made ​​it into the charts Genre Jazz & Improv the style- CDs of 2009, the magazine The Wire.

Lexigraphic entries

• Ian Carr et al Jazz Rough Guide Stuttgart 1999