Art Themen

Art Themen (b. 1939) is a British jazz saxophonist (and orthopaedic surgeon).

Musical career

He started playing jazz with the Cambridge University Jazz Group, and then in London playing with blues musicians Jack Bruce and Alexis Korner. In 1965 he played with the Peter Stuyvesant Jazz Orchestra in Zürich, going on on to play with such English luminaries as Michael Garrick and Graham Collier's Music.

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Blues - Jack Bruce - Alexis Korner - Peter Stuyvesant Jazz Orchestra - Zürich - Michael Garrick - Graham Collier

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In 1974 he entered on what was to be one of his central musical relationships when he started playing with Stan Tracey. He has played with all of Tracey's groups, touring with him all over the world as well as around the U.K. He has also played and toured with musicians such as Nat Adderley, Ian Carr, George Coleman, and Al Haig.

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1974 - Stan Tracey - Nat Adderley - Ian Carr - George Coleman - Al Haig

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His style originally owed much to the influence of Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins, but later influences included such disparate saxophonists as Coleman Hawkins, Evan Parker, and the “sheets of sound” John Coltrane.

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Dexter Gordon - Sonny Rollins - Coleman Hawkins - Evan Parker - John Coltrane

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