Pete King (saxophonist)

Peter Stephen George King

He played with Oscar Rabin 1948–50 and Kathy Stobart 1950–52. In September 1952 he recorded with the Ronnie Scott Quintet, which also included Dill Jones, Lennie Bush, and Tony Crombie. While playing with the bands Scott formed in the latter half of the 1950s, King was also a member of Jack Parnell's band,^[1] and shortly afterwards, together with other musicians left to form Scott's nine-piece orchestra featuring Scott and King on tenor saxes and other leading jazz musicians including Derek Humble (as), Jimmy Deuchar (tp), Ken Wray (tb), Benny Green (bs), Lennie Bush (b), and Tony Crombie (d).

In 1956, both King and Scott were members of the Victor Feldman Big Band.

After the break-up, in 1959, of

• Jon Eardley, Namely Me (Spotlite, 1979)
• Georgie Fame, Seventh Son (CBS, 1969)
• Kenny Graham, Mango Walk (Esquire, 1976)
• Kenny Graham, Afro Kadabra Caribbean Suite (Esquire, 1987)
• Richard Kerr, From Now Until Then (Warner Bros., 1973)
• R&J Stone, We Do It (RCA, 1976)
• Dakota Staton, Dakota '67 (London, 1967)

See also

• The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)

References