GEOFF CASTLE
Genres: Progressive Big Band, Vocal Jazz • United Kingdom

Geoff Castle (1949-2020) Geoffrey Charles Castle was born in London on 8 June 1949. He learned the piano as a child and spent two years studying jazz with Tubby Hayes, Don Rendell and Graham Collier. He joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in 1967 and departed NYJO in 1970 to join Collier’s band, recording three albums with them: Mosaics (Philips, 1971); Portraits (Saydisc, 1973) and Darius (Mosaic, 1974). He joined the Latin jazz-fusion outfit Paz in 1973 and in 1974 became a member of Ian Carr’s Nucleus. He played with the jazz-rock band for eight years and recorded seven albums with them and Carr from Under The Sun (Vertigo, 1974) to Carr’s seminal solo album Old Heartland (MMC, 1988). His own compositions featured on Snakehips Etcetera (Vertigo, 1975), Inflagrante Delicto (Capitol, 1977) and Out Of The Long Dark (Capitol, 1979). He also recorded on Neil Ardley’s highly acclaimed Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows (Gull, read more...