Tim Whitehead (musician)

Tim Whitehead (born 12 December 1950) is a British jazz musician who plays soprano, alto and tenor saxophone and flute.

He then studied law at Manchester University,[7] but gave up his work as a lawyer in 1976 to concentrate on music.

Together with guitarist Glenn Cartledge, he led the quartet "South of the Border", which won the Young Jazz Musicians of the Year Award.

In 1995 The Times wrote that "Tim Whitehead's music is marked by a sense of grace and economy"[9] with a "growing reputation as one of Britain's most thoughtful composers and improvisers.

[11] In 2009 he was Artist in Residence at Tate Britain, (funded by an award from The Leverhulme Trust), which led to him producing the album "Colour Beginnings", with music transcribed from improvisations in front of and inspired by J. M. W. Turner's watercolour sketches.