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
With Bud Freeman
With Spike Robinson
With Bill Watrous
  • 1982 Bill Watrous in London
With Gregory Fine'
  • 1999 Gregory Fine Trio: «»
  • 2000 Gregory Fine Trio: «»
  • 2001 ''Gregory Fine Quartet: «»''