Ray Warleigh [SEP] place of birth
Ray Warleigh
Raymond "Ray" Kenneth Warleigh (28 September 1938 – 21 September 2015) was a UK-based alto saxophonist and flautist.
Ray Warleigh was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and migrated to England in 1960, where he quickly established himself as an in-demand session musician.
He played and recorded with major figures and bands of the UK jazz and blues scene, including Alexis Korner, Tubby Hayes, Humphrey Lyttelton, Terry Smith, Ronnie Scott, Long John Baldry,
Pete La Roca, Pete Strange, Peter King, Petr Skoumal, Ray Warleigh, Rhoda Scott, Robert Schulz, Ross Tompkins, Roy Brooks, Ruth Price, Sal Nistico, Slim Richey, Steve Kuhn, Stix Hooper, Stu Martin, Tommy Vig, Tony Oxley, Warren Bernhardt, Wilson Simonal, and William Thomas McKinley.
- 1937 in jazz, deaths of Alex Hill, Bessie Smith, George Gershwin, Johnny Dunn, and Ward Pinkett; birth of Alice Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Baden Powell, Barbara Jay