10 Facts About Bob Sedergreen

Bob Sedergreen was born on 1943 and is an Australian jazz pianist.

Bob Sedergreen was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1943 to Seamus "Jim" Bob Sedergreen, a British Warrant Officer First Class, and Leah Erlichman, a milliner.

Bob Sedergreen moved to Australia in November 1951, where he lived in Melbourne and briefly attended Armadale State School before transferring to Haileybury College, a Presbyterian school for boys.

Bob Sedergreen played with the Fred Bradshaw Quartet, Ted Vining Trio, Alan Lee's Plant, Brian Brown's Quintet and Brian Brown's Quartet.

Bob Sedergreen has toured extensively both around Australia and overseas, including Montreal, Malaysia and Europe.

Bob Sedergreen has been advisor to the Montsalvat International Jazz Festival and involved in the introduction of new talent as well as negotiating and supervising the Nat Adderley Quintet and the McCoy Tyner Trio.

Bob Sedergreen has been an artist-in-residence at many Victorian secondary schools.

Bob Sedergreen has toured with the popular rock band Led Zeppelin playing the bagpipes.

Bob Sedergreen began hourly sets in Melbourne, Australia, in 2007, where he has taken to narration while performing the music of his life, taking time for comments, while still playing in chronological order to entertain the public in a one-man jazz show, called, "Hear Me Talking to Ya" named after a Nat and Cannonball Adderley tune.

Bob Sedergreen has worked as a band director at Blackburn High School, and has dome work at Ringwood Secondary College with his wife of 69 years Rae Sedergreen.