Bob Sedergreen
Bob Sedergreen (born 1943) is an Australian jazz pianist. Sedergreen has worked with John Sangster, Don Burrows, and Brian Brown and supported Nat Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, and Milt Jackson.
Bob Sedergreen | |
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 Bob Sedergreen Melbourne, January 2007 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1943 British Palestine |
| Genres | Jazz, blues |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, bandleader, educator |
| Instruments | Piano, keyboards |
| Years active | 1962–present |
| Associated acts | Jimmy Witherspoon, Ted Vining |
| Website | Official site |
Biography
Sedergreen was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1943 to Seamus "Jim" Sedergreen, a British Warrant Officer First Class, and Leah Erlichman, a milliner.[1] In 1947, the British government sent the P&O steam ship Otranto to evacuate all British families, as the British Mandate was coming to an end and Palestine would finally become Israel. Bob, together with his mother, and his sisters Joyce and Millie, settled in London and his father followed in 1948. Bob moved to Australia in November 1951, where he lived in Melbourne and briefly attended Armadale State School before transferring to Haileybury College, a Presbyterian school for boys.
Bob played with the Fred Bradshaw Quartet (1962–70), Ted Vining Trio (1971–present), Alan Lee's Plant (1973), Brian Brown's Quintet (1974) and Brian Brown's Quartet (1977–79). In the 1980s, he worked with the Australian Jazz Ensemble, Onaje and Peter Gaudion's Blues Express and the popular Blues on the Boil.
Bob has toured extensively both around Australia and overseas, including Montreal, Malaysia and Europe. He has been advisor to the Montsalvat International Jazz Festival and involved in the introduction of new talent as well as negotiating and supervising the Nat Adderley Quintet and the McCoy Tyner Trio.
As an educator, Bob has lectured at the Victorian College of the Arts and the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Music. He has also been an artist-in-residence at many Victorian secondary schools. Bob has also toured with the popular rock band Led Zeppelin playing the bagpipes.
To play with Bob Sedergreen has been described as the "ultimate armchair ride".[2]
Pianist Steve Sedergreen and saxophonist Mal Sedergreen are Bob’s sons.[3]
Other work
Sedergreen began hourly sets in Melbourne, Australia, in 2007, where he has taken to narration while performing the music of his life, taking time for comments, while still playing in chronological order to entertain the public in a one-man jazz show, called, "Hear Me Talking to Ya" named after a Nat and Cannonball Adderley tune. He has worked as band director at as a band director at Blackburn High School.[4]
Awards
Discography
- Unanimity with Tony Gould (Move Records, 1995)
- Deepest Green (2011)
- Bourbon St to Brunswick St with Adam Rudegeair (2015)
With Ted Vining
- The Ted Vining Trio Live at PBS FM 1981 (Newmarket Music, 1982)
- For Elvin... (Move, 2004)
- Our Favourite Things (Move, 2015)
With Rosa–Holbert–Sedergreen
- The First One (2002)
As sideman
- Bossa Eyes, Emma Sidney (Move, 2011)
- Points in Time, Steve Sedergreen (Newmarket Music, 2012)
- Three Dimensions of Love, Julie Bailey (2013)
- Empathy, Blow (2013)
- Valley Road, Geoff Kluke with More Changes (2015)
References
- Sedergreen, Bob (2007). Hear Me Talking To Ya: Tales from a Fair Dimkum Jazzman. Melbourne Books.
- "Bob Sedergreen". Move Records. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- "Steve Sedergreen". Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- "Sedergreen - home". www.bobsedergreen.com. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- 'Sedergreen Wins Don Banks Award', Jazz Australia
- "Jazz Legend wins Don Banks Award". Resonate Magazine. Australian Music Centre Ltd. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- Sedergreeen, Bob (2007). Hear Me Talking to Ya: Tales from a Fair Dinkum Jazz Man. pp. 168, 169.
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