JOE TEMPERLEY
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Joseph Temperley, jazz saxophonist, born 20 September 1929; died 11 May 2016
Although hailed by many as Scotland’s greatest ever jazz musician, the baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley, who has died aged 86, only fully matured as a soloist after settling in the US in 1965. Recruited by the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis in 1990 to become a founder member of the renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in New York, a rare accolade for a non-American, Temperley went on to enjoy an unbroken 25-year association with the orchestra, performing across the world.
It was Marsalis who said, “There is no greater sound on earth than Joe Temperley on a horn,” a sentiment to which he gave added weight with his five-part Joe’s Concerto, which was premiered at a Lincoln Center tribute to Temperley in 2015.
Temperley was born in Cowdenbeath in Fife and raised in nearby Lochgelly, where his father was a bus driver. Encouraged
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