Andrew Speight

Andrew Speight
Born(1964-03-23)23 March 1964
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died1 December 2022(2022-12-01) (aged 58)
Burlingame, California, U.S.
GenresJazz
InstrumentSaxophone

Andrew Speight (23 March 1964 – 1 December 2022) was an Australian-born American jazz saxophonist.[1][2][3] His band, the Andrew Speight Quartet, won the 1999 ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album with their self titled album.[4] Speight had previously fronted the jazz quintet Now's the Time.[5][6]

  1. ^ Hildebrand, Lee (10 July 2011), "Sax man Andrew Speight plays 'Bird With Strings'", SFGate
  2. ^ Weir, Kenny (16 May 1999), "The art of poise", Sunday Herald Sun
  3. ^ Shand, John (20 May 1997), "Speight Brings Home A White-hot Spate Of Bebop", Sydney Morning Herald
  4. ^ Scatena, Dino (13 October 1999), "Rockers' four ARIA haul worth the wait.", Daily Telegraph
  5. ^ Brennan, Gail (19 November 1988), "Now's almost the time", Sydney Morning Herald
  6. ^ Jackson, Adrian (28 December 1998), "Burrows. Jazz no trivial pursuit", BRW