Temperley, Joe

LC control no.	no 97034950
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Temperley, Joe *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Temperley, Joseph Temperly, Joe
Birth date	1929-09-20 1927-09-20
Death date	2016-05-11 2016-05-11
Place of birth	Cowdenbeath (Scotland) Lochgelly (Scotland)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity	Jazz
Affiliation	Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Manhattan School of Music (New York, N.Y.) Juilliard School
Profession or occupation	Saxophonists Music teachers
Found in	Sunbeam and thundercloud, p1996: container (Joe Temperley, baritone saxophone) OCLC, May 9, 1997 (hdg.: Temperley, Joe; Temperly, Joe; usage: Joe Temperley; Joe Temperly) Guardian WWW site, viewed May 17, 2016 (although hailed by many as Scotland's greatest ever jazz musician, the baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley only fully matured as a soloist after settling in the US in 1965; recruited in 1990 to become a founder member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in New York, Temperley went on to enjoy an unbroken 25-year association with the orchestra; Joseph Temperley, born 20 September 1929 in Cowdenbeath in Fife; died 11 May 2016, aged 86; bandleader Tommy Sampson took the 18-year-old saxophonist to London, where Temperley then moved through a series of bands, including those led by Harry Parry and Joe Loss, before he joined the drummer Jack Parnell's orchestra; often heard on record, he was seen as a promising tenor saxophonist before concentrating on the bulkier baritone instrument once he had joined Tommy Whittle's band in 1955; joined Humphrey Lyttelton's octet in early 1958 on baritone; teacher in the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard) Scotsman WWW site, viewed May 17, 2016 (Joe Temperley; born: 20 September 1927 in Lochgelly, Fife; died: 11 May 2016 in New York; the jazz world's most renowned baritone saxophonist and the first Scottish jazz musician to make it on the New York scene)