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Centipede were a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
/progressive rock
Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." The term "art rock" is often used interchangeably with "progressive rock", but while there are crossovers between the two genres, they are not identical....
/Canterbury sound
Canterbury Scene

The Canterbury scene is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s....
 big band
Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the swing from the early 1930s until the late 1940s....
 with more than 50 members, organized and led by the British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 free jazz
Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s.Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and '50s....
 pianist
Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
 Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett

Keith Tippett is a United Kingdom jazz pianist and composer.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....
, that brought together much of a generation of young British jazz and rock musicians, e.g. from the bands Soft Machine
Soft Machine

Soft Machine was an England Rock music band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the so-called "Canterbury scene," and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre....
, King Crimson
King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
, Nucleus
Nucleus (band)

Nucleus were a pioneering jazz-rock band from United Kingdom who continued in different forms from 1969 to 1985. In their first year they won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released the album Elastic Rock, an essential creation in the crystallization of a new musical expression, Jazz fusion, and performed both at the Newport Jazz...
 and Blossom Toes
Blossom Toes

Blossom Toes were an English psychedelic pop band active between 1967 and 1969. Initially known as The Ingoes, they were renamed and signed to manager Giorgio Gomelsky's Marmalade label....
.

As well as performing some concerts (limited economically by the size of the band), they recorded one double-album, Septober Energy
Septober Energy

Septober Energy is the only album of the jazz/progressive rock big band Centipede , organized and led by the United Kingdom free jazz pianist Keith Tippett, that brought together much of a generation of young British jazz and rock musicians in its more than 50 members, e.g....
 (produced by Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp is a guitarist, composer and a record producer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson....
), released in 1971.








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Centipede were a jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
/progressive rock
Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." The term "art rock" is often used interchangeably with "progressive rock", but while there are crossovers between the two genres, they are not identical....
/Canterbury sound
Canterbury Scene

The Canterbury scene is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s....
 big band
Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the swing from the early 1930s until the late 1940s....
 with more than 50 members, organized and led by the British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 free jazz
Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s.Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and '50s....
 pianist
Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
 Keith Tippett
Keith Tippett

Keith Tippett is a United Kingdom jazz pianist and composer.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....
, that brought together much of a generation of young British jazz and rock musicians, e.g. from the bands Soft Machine
Soft Machine

Soft Machine was an England Rock music band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the so-called "Canterbury scene," and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre....
, King Crimson
King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
, Nucleus
Nucleus (band)

Nucleus were a pioneering jazz-rock band from United Kingdom who continued in different forms from 1969 to 1985. In their first year they won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released the album Elastic Rock, an essential creation in the crystallization of a new musical expression, Jazz fusion, and performed both at the Newport Jazz...
 and Blossom Toes
Blossom Toes

Blossom Toes were an English psychedelic pop band active between 1967 and 1969. Initially known as The Ingoes, they were renamed and signed to manager Giorgio Gomelsky's Marmalade label....
.

As well as performing some concerts (limited economically by the size of the band), they recorded one double-album, Septober Energy
Septober Energy

Septober Energy is the only album of the jazz/progressive rock big band Centipede , organized and led by the United Kingdom free jazz pianist Keith Tippett, that brought together much of a generation of young British jazz and rock musicians in its more than 50 members, e.g....
 (produced by Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp is a guitarist, composer and a record producer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson....
), released in 1971.

Members


Violins:
  • Wendy Treacher
  • Jihn Trussler
  • Roddy Skeping
  • Wilf Gibson (lead)
  • Carol Slater
  • Louise Jopling
  • Garth Morton
  • Channa Salononson
  • Steve Rowlandson
  • Mica Gomberti
  • Colin Kitching
  • Philip Saudek
  • Esther Burgi


Cellos:
  • Michael Hurwitz
  • Timothy Kramer
  • Suki Towb
  • John Rees-Jones
    John Rees-Jones

    John Rees-Jones was born in Cardiff on the 9th November 1948. He was educated at the City of Bath Boys' School, the London College of Music and London University....
  • Katherine Thulborn
  • Catherine Finnis


Trumpets:
  • Peter Parkes
  • Mick Collins
  • Ian Carr
    Ian Carr

    Ian Carr was a Scotland jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator.Carr was born in Dumfries, Scotland, the elder brother of Mike Carr . From 1952 to 1956, he went to King's College, now Newcastle University, where he read English Literature, followed by a diploma in education....
     (doubling flugelhorn)
  • Mongezi Feza
    Mongezi Feza

    Mongezi Feza was a South African jazz trumpet player and flautist.A member of The Blue Notes, he left South Africa in 1964 and settled in Europe, living in London and Copenhagen....
     (pocket cornet)
  • Mark Charig (cornet)


Alto Saxophones:
  • Elton Dean
    Elton Dean

    Elton Dean was a jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally Electronic keyboard.Dean was born Nottingham, England and from 1966-67, Dean was a member of the band Bluesology, led by Long John Baldry....
     (doubling saxello)
  • Jan Steele (doubling flute)
  • Ian McDonald
    Ian McDonald (musician)

    Ian McDonald is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, best known as a founding member of progressive rock musical group King Crimson, formed in 1969, and of the hard rock band Foreigner in 1976....
  • Dudu Pukwana
    Dudu Pukwana

    Mtutuzel Dudu Pukwana was a South African saxophone player, pianist and composer, though he is not known for his piano playing at all....


Tenor Saxophones:
  • Larry Stabbins
  • Gary Windo
    Gary Windo

    Gary Windo was a jazz tenor saxophonist.He came from a musical family in England and by age six took up drums and accordion, then guitar at 12, and finally saxophone at 17....
  • Brian Smith
  • Alan Skidmore
    Alan Skidmore

    Alan Skidmore is a tenor saxophone of jazz and blues music, son of the saxophonist Jimmy Skidmore....


Baritone Saxophones:
  • Dave White (doubling clarinet)
  • Karl Jenkins
    Karl Jenkins

    Karl William Jenkins Order of the British Empire D.Mus. is a Wales musician and composer. Jenkins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list for 2005....
     (doubling oboe)
  • John Williams (bass saxophone, doubling soprano)


Trombones:
  • Nick Evans
    Nick Evans (trombonist)

    Nicholas "Nick" Evans is a Welsh jazz and progressive rock trombonist....
  • Dave Amis
  • Dave Perrottet
  • Paul Rutherford
    Paul Rutherford (trombone player)

    Paul William Rutherford was an England free improvisation trombone....


Drums:
  • John Marshall
    John Stanley Marshall

    John Stanley Marshall, better known as John Marshall, born 28 August, 1941 in Isleworth, Middlesex, is an England drummer. He was a founding member of the Jazz fusion band Nucleus and has worked with various other jazz and Rock bands and musicians, among them J....
     (and all percussion)
  • Tony Fennell
  • Robert Wyatt
    Robert Wyatt

    Robert Wyatt is an England musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine. He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge....


Vocalists:
  • Maggie Nichols
    Maggie Nicols

    Maggie Nicols , is a Scotland Free jazz and Musical improvisation vocalist, dancer, and performer....
  • Julie Tippetts
  • Mike Patto
    Mike Patto

    Mike Patto . He became vocalist and front man for The Bow Street Runners. who won a prestigous TV band competition Ready Steady Win during 1964 ....
  • Zoot Money
    Zoot Money

    George Bruno "Zoot" Money is a singing, keyboardist, bandleader and actor best known for his playing of the Hammond Organ and the Big Roll Band....
  • Boz Burrell
    Boz Burrell

    Boz Burrell was a Bass guitar guitarist and singer known for his involvement in bands such as King Crimson and Bad Company.Whilst singer in The Boz People in the mid-1960s, Boz was selected to replace Roger Daltrey in The Who when the remaining members of that band were on the verge of firing Daltrey, which ultimately did not happen....


Basses:
  • Roy Babbington
    Roy Babbington

    Roy Babbington is a rock music and jazz bassist. He became well known for being a member of the Canterbury scene progressive rock/jazz fusion band Soft Machine....
     (doubling bass guitar)
  • Jill Lyons
  • Harry Miller
    Harry Miller (jazz bassist)

    Harold Simon 'Harry' Miller was a South Africa jazz double bass player.Miller began his career as a bassist with Manfred Mann, and came to settle in London....
  • Jeff Clyne
    Jeff Clyne

    Jeffrey Ovid 'Jeff' Clyne is a British jazz bassist .He has worked with Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott, Blossom Dearie, Stan Tracey , Ian Carr, Gordon Beck , Zoot Sims, Norma Winstone, John Burch and Marion Montgomery....
  • Dave Markee
  • Brian Belshaw


Guitar:
  • Brian Godding
    Brian Godding

    Brian Godding is a pop music, rock music and jazz guitarist. He was brought up, and has lived mostly in London.He has been a member of many rock, jazz and progressive rock band , such as The Gravediggers, The Ingoes, Blossom Toes, B....


Piano:
  • Keith Tippett
    Keith Tippett

    Keith Tippett is a United Kingdom jazz pianist and composer.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....
     (musical director)


External links

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