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Bookmark or Share- Biography - John SurmanJohn Surman began playing jazz as a schoolboy in his native Devon in 1962. As luck would have it, the group that he was asked to join was led by composer-bandleader Mike Westbrook, then studying art at a local college.
- John Surman - WikipediaJohn Douglas Surman (born 30 August 1944) [1] is an English jazz saxophone, clarinet, and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music. He has composed and performed music for dance performances and film soundtracks.
- John Surman – Words Unspoken - Jazz ViewsJohn Surman is a majestic figure in European Jazz. He is old enough to remember the time when American jazz eclipsed jazz from all other areas. Surman was one of the first figures that gave European jazz a voice. He is that important.
- John Surman - ECM RecordsChris Jones, reviewing for the BBC, has called John Surman “one of the foremost innovators when it comes to defining the saxophone's place in modern music” and The Times said of him: “In his ability to blend some of the methods and textures of modern jazz with a wholly English sensibility, Surman is a true original.”
- JOHN SURMAN discography (top albums) and reviewsBorn in Tavistock, Devon in 1944, composer/multi-instrumentalist John Surman is one of the key figures in a generation of European musicians who have crucially expanded the international horizons of jazz during the past thirty years or so.
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