Florence Kathleen "Kathy" Stobart (1 April 1925[1] – 6 July 2014)[2] was an English jazz saxophonist primarily known for playing the tenor sax.
[3] She toured with Vic Lewis in 1949 and led her own group in 1950-51;[1] among its members were Derek Humble, Dill Jones, and Bert Courtley whom she married in October 1951 until his death in September 1969.
Aside from this she played with Johnny Griffin, Al Haig, Earl Hines, Buddy Tate, Zoot Sims, Marian McPartland, and Dick Hyman.
Stobart was also a regular guest musician on the BBC Radio 1 programme Sounds of Jazz, recorded at the Maida Vale Studios midweek in London in the 1970s, and introduced by Peter Clayton on Sunday evenings.
Meanwhile she made guest appearances returning to play in New York with saxophonist Zoot Sims and the expatriate English pianist Marian McPartland.
In 2001, Stobart appeared on stage with Radiohead, along with the Humphrey Lyttleton band, in front of 42,000 fans at the South Park concert in Oxford.
[1] In the same year, Stobart tutored saxophone to Dame Judi Dench for her role in the Alan Platter TV play, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells.