Kate Westbrook
b. Kate Barnard, Guildford, Surrey, England. Westbrook initially studied as a painter, exhibiting in the UK, Europe and the USA, before joining her future husband in the Mike Westbrook Brass Band (1974). Self-taught as a musician she sings and plays a variety of wind instruments, as well as composing and writing lyrics for many of Mike Westbrook’s groups. Independently, she was a guest soloist with the RAI Orchestra in Rome and the Zurich Radio Orchestra during the 70s, and in the 80s worked on projects with Lindsay Cooper. She sings in French, German, Greek and Italian and has performed from the works of poets and songwriters as diverse as D.H. Lawrence, William Blake, Cole Porter, Rossini and Lorca. In conjunction with Mike Westbrook, she organized many multi-media events involving music, performance and painting, which have been performed on television and the theatre. With such a wide variety of experience it is hardly surprising that she has complained: ‘I think we’ve got some way to go before there’s an understanding in the musical world of this thing greater than any category: music’.
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Discography
15 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Paintbox Jane - Raoul Dufy Paints a Portrait
Mike Westbrook, Kate Westbrook, Westbrook & Company
Moderne jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 19 aug. 2022
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London Bridge: Live in Zurich 1990 (Live)
Mike Westbrook, Kate Westbrook
Moderne jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 4 nov. 2022
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Fine 'n Yellow
Kate Westbrook, Mike Westbrook
Moderne jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 15 feb. 2019
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Earth Felt the Wound
Kate Westbrook, The Granite Band
Moderne jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 31 jul. 2020
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The Serpent Hit
Kate Westbrook, Mike Westbrook
Moderne jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 15 feb. 2019
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Allsorts
Kate Westbrook, Mike Westbrook
Moderne jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 15 feb. 2019
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Cuff Clout, a Neoteric Music Hall
Vocale jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 26 jul. 2019
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Says the Duke (Remembering Duke Ellington)
Kate Westbrook, The Granite Band
Moderne jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 28 apr. 2023
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The Streams of Lovely Lucienne
Kate Westbrook, The Granite Band
Moderne jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 10 jul. 2020
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Art Wolf
Kate Westbrook, Mike Westbrook
Vocale jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 16 mei 2005
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Good-bye Peter Lorre
Vocale jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 2 aug. 2019
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The Nijinska Chamber
Vocale jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 26 jul. 2019
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Granite
Moderne jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 27 jul. 2018
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The Nijinska Chamber
Jazz - Released by Floating World on 26 jul. 2019
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Says the Duke
Kate Westbrook, The Granite Band
Moderne jazz - Released by Westbrook Records on 28 apr. 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo