Saxophone section

Pete Hurt
Pete Hurt has quietly been part of the London jazz scene for almost four decades, developing a uniquely distinguishable tenor saxophone sounds and compositional voice.
Born in Nottingham in 1950, in the early seventies Pete moved to London, joining first the Graham Collier band, and later Redbrass with Dick Pearce, Chris Biscoe, and Annie Lennox. He also formed a quartet (and lifelong musical partnership), Lighthouse, with pianist Pete Saberton, winning the Greater London Arts Association’s Young Jazz Musician of the Year award for 1976.
Pete recorded regularly for the BBC (Jazz Club, Jazz in Britain, etc.) with bands ranging from a quartet to a small big band, and wrote many arrangements for the BBC Big Band. In 1984 he released “Lost For Words” on the Spotlite label with a twelve-piece line-up including Henry Lowther, Chris Biscoe and Chris Pyne. He was invited to join George Russell's Anglo-American Living Time Orchestra with Palle Mikkelbourg, Kenny Wheeler and Courtney Pine, touring in Europe and the USA; he also toured and recorded with the first Andy Sheppard big band, Andy’s Big Commotion, and the Carla Bley Very Big Band. In 1994 Pete recorded his first quartet album, Umbrellas, on the ASC label with pianist Pete Saberton, bassist Tim Wells and drummer Tristan Maillot. He recently released A New Start on the Trio label with his own Pete Hurt Orchestra.
Amongst other musicians that Pete has performed with are Kenny Wheeler, Mike Westbrook, Don Rendell, John Taylor, Mick Pyne, Bryan Spring, The Prague Television Orchestra, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Stan Sulzmann, and he is a member of Henry Lowther’s quintet, Still Waters.