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Tippett went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead , Bristol . The son of a local police officer, he was the solo Soprano singer in a school production of Tom Sawyer . He formed his first Jazz band called The KT7 whilst still at school and they performed numbers popular at the time by The Temperance Seven . In the late 1960s, he led a sextet featuring Elton Dean on saxophone, Mark Charig on trumpet and Nick Evans on trombone. Tippett married singer Julie Driscoll and wrote scores for TV. In the early 1970s, his Big Band Centipede brought together much of a generation of young British jazz and rock musicians. As well as performing some concerts (limited economically by the size of the band), they recorded one double-album, '' Septober Energy ''. |
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