Len Skeat
Leonard Skeat was a British jazz double-bassist, and the younger brother of Bill Skeat, a saxophone player.
Biography
He was born in East End of London, and worked with the Ted Heath band. During the 1970s, he was in demand and almost resident at the Pizza Express Jazz Club, and Pizza on the Park Jazz Club in London. He was a member of the band, Velvet.Skeat recorded with Mel Tormé, Ben Webster, Billy Eckstine, Lionel Hampton, Scott Hamilton, Helen Merrill, Lou Rawls, Harry Edison, Denny Wright, Digby Fairweather, Spike Robinson, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Stéphane Grappelli, Dick Morrissey, Bill Watrous, Randy Sandke, and Russian Gregory Fine. He was also a member of the Eddie Thompson Trio and Charly Antolini's Jazz Power.
Discography
With Charly Antolini- 1989 Cookin'
- 1990 Charly Antolini Meets Dick Morrissey
- 1993 Right-On
- 1980 The Dolphin Has A Message
- 1984 Spike Robinson-Eddie Thompson Trip/At Chesters Volumes 1 & 2
- 1986 In Town with Elaine Delmar
- 1987 The Gershwin Collection
- 1982 Bill Watrous in London