[3] He studied piano in his youth, but decided to pursue a career as an engineering technical draughtsman[4] and moved to Canada in 1957 for this reason.
[2] He led his own bands from 1965, including Gyroscope, from 1968, a trio with bassist Jeff Clyne and drummer Tony Oxley.
[3] In 1967, the Gordon Beck Quartet recorded the album Experiments with Pops which was released on Major Minor MMLP 21 in 1968.
[3] Beck also played "experimental funk in the Swiss musician George Gruntz's six-keyboard group Piano Conclave (1973-75), and free jazz with [...] British improv drummer John Stevens (1977, 1982).
[2] Describing Beck, in his obituary for The Guardian, jazz critic John Fordham said: "He hardly ever played a cliche; he struck notes with a steely precision or a glistening delicacy depending on the mood, and his solos developed in constantly changing phrase lengths and rhythms that never sounded glib or routine.