Colin Thomas Purbrook was an English jazz pianist and songwriter.
10 Facts About Colin Purbrook
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Colin Purbrook then studied music at the Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
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Colin Purbrook left Cambridge in 1957 and joined Sandy Brown's quintet on double bass for a six-month period at the popular 100 Club in Oxford Street, London.
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Colin Purbrook played piano for three years with Al Fairweather's All Stars, and played with Kenny Ball, both as a pianist and on trumpet and double bass.
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Colin Purbrook was on piano for the BBC 2's music programme Jazz 625 with Dakota Staton and the Keith Christie All Stars respectively.
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Colin Purbrook often played, through choice, with drummer Phil Seamen, a musician whom he admired, and he joined Seamen's Trio during the late 1960s and early '70s.
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Colin Purbrook was a frequent sideman for Americans touring the UK, and worked over the course of his career with Chet Baker, Ruby Braff, Benny Carter, Doc Cheatham, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Art Farmer, Dexter Gordon, Barney Kessel, Howard McGhee, James Moody, Annie Ross, Zoot Sims, and Buddy Tate.
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Colin Purbrook was involved with the production of a number of stage plays from the 1970s through the 1990s, and led trios and quartets into the 1990s.
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Colin Purbrook was able to do this because of the unique skills of his consultant at the Central Middlesex Hospital, Dr Bernard Colacco, a jazz fan who often went to listen to Purbrook at the Pizza Express Jazz Club.
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Colin Purbrook died in London of cancer in February, 1999.