SAX IN THE CITY

Having started on the clarinet at the age of eight, Colin Crabbe moved on to the saxophone five years later when he was influenced by West Coast jazz - Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan and Gil Evans, and the sax playing of Paul Desmond and Stan Getz. At the Royal Academy of Music he was taught saxophone by John Dankworth and clarinet by Alan Hacker and by the mid 1970s was a staff musician with the BBC Midland Radio Orchestra. It was at that time that Colin Crabbe joined Nigel Wood and Jan Steele as founder members of the group Saxtet. He has also worked with a number of leading orchestras and bands and accompanied well known singers including Peggy Lee, Cleo Laine and Shirley Bassey. Having tutored the saxophone at Birmingham Conservatoire, he is now teaching the instrument at all levels, concentrating on jazz improvisation.
In 2004 Colin Crabbe decided to devote more time to composing, and this resulted in the publication of Sax in the City the following year. It began as a piece calle

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