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Mike Westbrook

Mike Westbrook is known for composer. Mike Westbrook's nationality is British. Mike Westbrook was born on 21 March 1936.

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Who is Mike Westbrook?

Mike Westbrook is best known for composer. Mike Westbrook is a British public figure. Mike Westbrook was born on 21 March 1936, which places Mike Westbrook among the people in the Dead or Alive catalog born in the 1930s. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Mike Westbrook is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

Facts

Known for: composer
Nationality: British
Born: 21 March 1936

About Mike Westbrook

The Times described him as "one of Britain's most creative, experimental and daring jazz composers". He grew up in Torquay and Plymouth, Devon and was educated privately at Kelly College in Tavistock, Devon. In his teens he fell under the influence of the trad jazz of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller and Duke Ellington. He took up the trumpet but switched to piano and taught himself to read music. After school he had a brief spell in accountancy followed by two years' National Service, some of it in Germany, after which he went to Plymouth College of Art to study painting. While stationed in Bournemouth in 1956 "he saw American jazz for the first time when Lionel Hampton's band played at the Winter Gardens". He formed his first jazz band, an octet, at Plymouth in 1958 and was joined by such musicians as John Surman, Lou Gare and Keith Rowe.

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Mike Westbrook was born on 21 March 1936.

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