Max Middleton

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Max Middleton
melodic rock
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • composer
Instrument(s)Keyboards
Years active1966–present
Labels
Websitewww.maxmiddleton.com

David Maxwell Middleton (born 4 August 1946) is an English composer and keyboardist. Trained as a classical pianist, Middleton also had a strong affinity for jazz.

Fender Rhodes electric piano and the Minimoog synthesiser, and for his percussive playing style on the Hohner Clavinet. He started his professional music career by playing keyboards for Jeff Beck and is best known for his work on Beck's Blow by Blow
(1975).

Career

After being introduced to Beck by bassist

John Martyn
.

Middleton worked with Beck in the second

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)[4] and Nazareth's most successful album, Hair of the Dog
(1975). In 1977 he played keyboards on the Rhead Brothers first EMI album 'Dedicate', later writing and arranging a score for the track, 'When the Seagull flies' on their second album Black Shaheen.

In 1979, he played keyboards on Morrissey–Mullen's Cape Wrath and released Another Sleeper in the same year, an instrumental album with guitarist Robert Ahwai. This classic jazz-funk album was released along with Cape Wrath, on Fusion Harvest/EMI Records, the duo is supported by Richard Bailey, Kuma Harada, Darryl Lee Que, Steve Gregory, Bud Beadle, George Chisholm, Trevor Barber, Chris Rainbow and some backing vocalists.

In 1980 Middleton was involved with the arrangements on and played keyboards for

Never For Ever,[5] which had album and single success.[6] The following year he played on John Martyn's first album for WEA, Glorious Fool. Throughout the 1980s he was also involved with Chris Rea playing on Shamrock Diaries, On the Beach, New Light Through Old Windows, The Road to Hell, Auberge, God's Great Banana Skin, Espresso Logic, La Passione, The Blue Cafe, The Road to Hell: Part 2 and King of the Beach
. He produced Dick Morrissey's Souliloquy (1988) on which he played keyboards.[7] He also toured regularly with Mick Taylor's band during the mid to late 1990s. Middleton is credited as co-writer with Gary Moore of "The Loner" from Cozy Powell's album Over the Top (1979) and as co-writer of "The Loner" from Gary Moore's album Wild Frontier (1987).[8] Middleton released the
Snowy White & The White Flames in 2005. In 2009, 2010 and 2013 he played with Mick Taylor
's band.

In November 2010 Middleton released the album One Thousand Sails.

In April 2013 Middleton released the album Two Cranes.

References

  1. ^ a b c Bruce Eder. "Max Middleton". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  2. ^ Kirschenmanntitle. Mark. "Blow by Blow". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  3. ^ Baisden, Ray. "This is Rock 'n' Roll Baby". iansamwell.com. p. 17. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  4. ^ Bilyeu, Cook, Hughes, Brennan and Croban. The Bee Gees. Omnibus Press. p. 458.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Mon, Roy. Kate Bush and Hounds of love. Ashgate Publishing.
  6. ^ DeGagne, Mike. "Never For Ever". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  7. ^ Ankeny, Jason. "Dick Morrissey". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
  8. ^ "The Loner". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2009.

Bibliography

External links
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