Peter King

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Shango 05:39 Tools
African Dialects 00:00 Tools
Brazilian Thoroughfare 00:00 Tools
June Bug 00:00 Tools
Flying Scotsman 00:00 Tools
In A Monochrome 00:00 Tools
Lust 00:00 Tools
Lush Life (Solo) 00:00 Tools
Prisoner's Song 00:00 Tools
Tristan's Song 00:00 Tools
Spirit Of Ornette 00:00 Tools
Mystery Tour 06:17 Tools
Afro Funk 03:53 Tools
Watusi 00:00 Tools
Scrambled Eggs 00:00 Tools
Freedom Dance 04:12 Tools
Prisoner of Law 00:00 Tools
Now I'm a Man 00:00 Tools
Mr Lonely Wolf 00:00 Tools
Go Go's Feast 00:00 Tools
Jo Jolo 00:00 Tools
Ronnie's Sorrow 00:00 Tools
Memory Can Kill 00:00 Tools
Women Overseas 00:00 Tools
A Girl Named Summer 00:00 Tools
Silly Goose 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down Swingin' 00:00 Tools
Omo Lewa 00:00 Tools
Ko Dara 00:00 Tools
Early Morning Rain 00:00 Tools
The Road to Ubatuba 00:00 Tools
Walking Blues 00:00 Tools
Yere Africa 00:00 Tools
EDA 00:00 Tools
Teach Dem Fi Read, Write & Spell 00:00 Tools
White Blossoms 00:00 Tools
Corrina, Corrina 00:00 Tools
Congo 00:00 Tools
Morning Mail 00:00 Tools
The Capital of Idaho 00:00 Tools
Me Neat Me Sweet 00:00 Tools
Shango - Peter King 00:00 Tools
African Dialects - Peter King 00:00 Tools
Boleya Koya 00:00 Tools
Ijo Olomo 00:00 Tools
Old Folks 00:00 Tools
Sunshine Lady 00:00 Tools
Caribean Air 00:00 Tools
Iya la Jole 00:00 Tools
Joy 00:00 Tools
Bad Memory 03:44 Tools
Golden Jungle Boy 00:00 Tools
Happy Song 00:00 Tools
Teach Dem Fi Read, Write And Spell 00:00 Tools
African Dialects (Re-edit) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Soulful Congo 00:00 Tools
Adura 00:00 Tools
Speed Trap 00:00 Tools
Gyinmi Komo 00:00 Tools
Hollins: Concert Overture In C Minor 00:00 Tools
One Shot Of Vodka 00:00 Tools
Vives En La Noche 00:00 Tools
Prisoner of War 00:00 Tools
Let's Go For a Ride 00:00 Tools
Goodbye, Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Hollins: Intermezzo In D Flat 00:00 Tools
That's My Girl 00:00 Tools
Bridge: Adagio In E 00:00 Tools
Bridge: Andante Moderato In C Minor 00:00 Tools
Sag, Drag & Fall 00:00 Tools
Gloria O Eternidad 00:00 Tools
Hi Fly 00:00 Tools
Elezy 00:00 Tools
Sweet Moan Blues 00:00 Tools
Connoisseur of Lawns 00:00 Tools
Number One in Liechtenstein 00:00 Tools
King Band Boogie 00:00 Tools
Oso Corredor 00:00 Tools
King's Zydeco 00:00 Tools
Somebody Else's July 00:00 Tools
Don't Play That Song 00:00 Tools
Pseudopod 016: Medicinal 00:00 Tools
Grainger: Irish Tune From County Derry 00:00 Tools
Susie La Tartamuda 00:00 Tools
Time is Watching 00:00 Tools
No Se Que Hacer 00:00 Tools
Gentlemen Joe 00:00 Tools
Ajo / Peter King 00:00 Tools
Bad Memory f/ Maffi 00:00 Tools
Thank You St. Jude 00:00 Tools
Gentleman Joe 00:00 Tools
Cindy 00:00 Tools
Hold You Too Long 00:00 Tools
Get On The Right Track Baby 00:00 Tools
Whitlock: Carol 00:00 Tools
Whitlock: Divertimento 00:00 Tools
Afro-Funk (Secret Stash) 00:00 Tools
Lafayette Zydeco 00:00 Tools
Nuevo Cadillac 00:00 Tools
Peter King-Shango 00:00 Tools
Peter King Interview 00:00 Tools
Bridge: Allegro Con Spirito In B Flat 00:00 Tools
Dido's Lament 00:00 Tools
El Gato Negro 00:00 Tools
Elelzy 00:00 Tools
Ireland: Capriccio 00:00 Tools
Whitlock: Fanfare 00:00 Tools
Brown Eyed Girl 00:00 Tools
Whitlock: Fidelis 00:00 Tools
Chorale Fantasia - Wie Schon Leuchtet Der Morgenstern 00:00 Tools
Ireland: Elegiac Romance 00:00 Tools
Tamburello 00:00 Tools
You Taught My Heart How to Sing 00:00 Tools
Peter King - Ajo 00:00 Tools
Pseudo016: Medicinal 00:00 Tools
My Man's Gone Now 00:00 Tools
Leona 00:00 Tools
Mr Lonley Wolf 00:00 Tools
Saint-Saens: Fantaisie In D Flat Op.101 00:00 Tools
Mr Silver 00:00 Tools
Ayrton 00:00 Tools
Imola 00:00 Tools
Aja 00:00 Tools
02 - Ajo 00:00 Tools
Se Que Pronto Estaras 00:00 Tools
Getting On 00:00 Tools
Yes or No 00:00 Tools
Liszt: Orpheus 00:00 Tools
Boxer's Demise 00:00 Tools
Please Don't Ever Leave Me 00:00 Tools
Le Sunset 00:00 Tools
Buxtehude: Praeludium in C 00:00 Tools
Bohm: Vater Unser In Himmelreich 00:00 Tools
Andante Moderato in C minor 00:00 Tools
Lush Life 00:00 Tools
Bess, Oh Where's My Bess? 00:00 Tools
On Days Like These 00:00 Tools
Orpheus 00:00 Tools
Mr. and Mrs. Untrue 00:00 Tools
Buxtehude: Praeludium in G minor 00:00 Tools
Ijo Clomo 00:00 Tools
Irish tune from County Derry 00:00 Tools
Reverse Thrust 00:00 Tools
Warm Breeze 00:00 Tools
Prisoner Of Low 00:00 Tools
Peter King - African Dialects 00:00 Tools
Jo Lolo 00:00 Tools
Guridi: Triptico Del Buen Pastor: The Flock 00:00 Tools
Praeludium In C 00:00 Tools
Peter King - Watusi 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Dreamer 00:00 Tools
Reggie Limbo 00:00 Tools
Evans' Song 00:00 Tools
Speedful Wink 00:00 Tools
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Peter King / Ajo 00:00 Tools
Training Montage 00:00 Tools
Sag, Drag Fall 00:00 Tools
Hommage A Dietrich Buxtehude 00:00 Tools
Adagio in E 00:00 Tools
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There are at least four musicians called Peter King: 1. A Nigerian Afro-beat tenor saxophonist. 2. An English jazz alto saxophonist 3. An American singer-songwriter and guitarist. 4. An English church-organist. 1. Peter King Adeyoyin Osubu (born 1938), known as Peter King, is a Nigerian musician who played several instruments, but was best known as an alto saxophonist playing a combination of Afrobeat and Jazz. Peter King is perhaps better known in Europe and America than in Nigeria for his "Miliki Sound" on the record A Soulful Peter King, where he played popular classics such as "Sincerely", "We Belong Together" and "Just Because". Peter King was born in 1938 in Enugu in the Southeastern region of Nigeria and grew up in Lokoja, Lagos and Port Harcourt. In 1957 he joined the Roy Chicago band in Ibadan, playing the maracas and then the conga drum. He moved to other bands in Ibadan and then Lagos, playing the double bass, drums and then the alto sax. In 1961 he went to London where he studied at various schools of music, including the Trinity College of Music. While in London, Peter King joined with drummer Bayo Martins and trumpeter Mike Falana to form the African Messengers group. The group performed at festivals and clubs, and served as backup band for acts like The Four Tops, The Temptations and Diana Ross. The African Messengers recorded many 45rpm records. "Highlife Piccadilly", a fusion of Highlife and Jazz was a hit. Peter King formed another band The Blues Builders with which he toured Europe and Northern Africa. Peter King returned to Nigeria in 1969, and with his group The Voice of Africa performed on the war front during the Nigerian Civil War. Returning to London in 1971 he toured Europe, America and Japan with his group Shango. He assembled and arranged a big band to back the singing group Boney M on their first live concert tour across Europe in 1977. He recorded nine studio albums between 1975 and 1978, and wrote music for several plays and television shows. In 1979 King returned to Nigeria and formed the P.K band. He composed music for soap operas and recorded three further albums. In the early 1980s Peter King and his P.K. Band played on the NTA and at the National Museum, Lagos for three years. Peter King plays in the Sonny Rollins-Gene Ammons-John Coltrane tradition. He has a unique tone, flawless articulation and a fresh turn of mind in improvisations, and is the leading tenor saxophone voice to have come from the Nigerian highlife and afrobeat traditions. Talking of his hit "Highlife Piccadilly", Peter King said "Our philosophy was to play modern jazz with highlife as the basis ... Afrojazz is my musical direction and a mission". Peter King combined afrobeat with a funk style similar to James Brown. His album Shango was acclaimed by critics. Opening with a simple flute melody, tambourines enter followed by complex duets between horns and looping guitar riffs. Peter King founded his School of Music in 1982, in a three-room apartment in Maza Maza. At first it had about 30 students. Since then the College has expanded greatly, and is now located in Badagry. It has lecture halls, rehearsal rooms, an assembly-concert hall and hostel facilities. The school has been assisted by Canadian musicians Oliver Jones and Archie Allen and greatly assisted by the French government. Almost two thousand students have graduated from the school since 1982. The school provides practical tuition and grants certificates and diplomas. It prepares students for the professional examinations of Associate, Licentiate and Fellowship of the Trinity, Royal and London Schools of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In January 2007 the French Ambassador in Nigeria inaugurated the new facilities of the Peter king school of music at Badagry, Lagos State. Discography Mikki Sounds (Orbitone 1975) Omo Lewa (Orbitone 1976) A Soulful Peter King (Orbitone 1977) Moods (Tyrone Records 1978) African Dialects (Grandstand 1979) Omolewa Palm Wine Vendor (2002) 2. Peter King (b. 1940) is an English jazz saxophonist, composer, and clarinettist. King was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey on 11th August 1940, and taught himself to play the clarinet at the age of fifteen, quickly switching to alto saxophone. In 1959, at the age of nineteen, he was booked by Ronnie Scott to perform at the opening of Scott's club in Gerrard Street, London. In the same year he received the "Melody Maker New Star" award. He worked with John Dankworth's orchestra from 1960 to 1961, and went on to work with the big bands of Maynard Ferguson, Tubby Hayes, Harry South, and Stan Tracey, the Brussels Big Band, and the Ray Charles band on a European tour. He has also played in small groups with musicians such as Philly Joe Jones, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Red Rodney, Hampton Hawes, Nat Adderley, Al Haig, Bill Watrous, and Dick Morrissey, and singers such as Jimmy Witherspoon, Joe Williams, Jon Hendricks, and Anita O'Day. He is a member of Charlie Watts' Tentet (see Charlie Watts And The Tentet). He has recorded with the Peter King Quartet (for which there is a Last.fm streamable track: "In a Monochrome") the Peter King Quintet, and with the Al Haig Trio and Art Themen as the University College School All Stars. King's composing has moved beyond individual numbers for performance and recording, and includes an opera, Zyklon, in collaboration with Julian Barry. His autobiography, Flying High: A Jazz Life and Beyond, has been published by Northway Books. 3. Peter King (b.1954) is a U.S. singer-singwriter. King was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1954. His early influences were blues and singer-songwriters including James Taylor and Joni Mitchell. King studied classical music at Penn State University. He studied jazz and Brazilian guitar with Marty Ashby in Pittsburgh and earned an M.A. in guitar performance from Duquesne University in 1994. 4. Peter King is organist at Bath Abbey in England. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.