(1926-08-28)28 August 1926 Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England
Died
13 October 1972(1972-10-13) (aged 46) Lambeth, South London, England
Genres
Jazz jazz-rock
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instrument(s)
Drums
Years active
1944–1972
Musical artist
Philip William Seamen (28 August 1926 – 13 October 1972)[1] was an English jazz drummer.
With a background in big band music, Seamen played and recorded in a wide range of musical contexts with virtually every key figure of 1950s and 1960s British jazz. Notable examples included Joe Harriott, Tubby Hayes, Stan Tracey, Ronnie Scott, Denny Termer, Dick Morrissey, Harold McNair, Don Rendell, Victor Feldman, Dizzy Reece, Tony Coe, Tony Lee, and George Chisholm, among others. Later in his career he worked with Alexis Korner and Georgie Fame, and had a spell with Ginger Baker's Air Force, the leader of the band being Seamen's foremost disciple. Addiction to alcohol and other drugs hampered his career.[2]
^"The Late Great Phil Seamen article". Allaboutjazz.com. 30 January 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
^Phil Seamen Biography AllMusic Retrieved 26 May 2020.
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drums at around 15 years of age. In the early 1960s he took lessons from PhilSeamen, one of the leading British jazz drummers of the post-war era. In the...
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drummer, then left to replace Ringo Starr for 13 days on a Beatles tour. PhilSeamen and Micky Waller sat in for Nicol until Bill Eyden became the band's...
well-known session fixer during that period. Nicol has cited drummer PhilSeamen and saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley as being his main influences...
albums. He formed the Harry South Big Band in 1966 with Dick Morrissey, PhilSeamen, Keith Christie, Ronnie Scott and Ian Carr, and recorded an album, Presenting...
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until December 1965. He joined the Dick Morrissey Quartet, replacing PhilSeamen, and did session work for various rock and R&B groups, including Procol...
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used as a live recording venue, once being used by British jazz drummer PhilSeamen for a recording for his album "Now! ... Live!" (1968). Two recent additions...
Coleridge Goode (bass) and PhilSeamen (drums). Les Condon temporarily replaced Keane on trumpet in 1961, while Seamen left permanently the same year...
London at the end of 1963, Pyne worked in the 1960s with John Stevens, PhilSeamen, and extensively with Tubby Hayes, in addition to doing European tours...
Hayes, Ronnie Ross, Jackie Armstrong, Tommy McQuater, Bert Courtley, and PhilSeamen. Watt became one of the better-known British bandleaders of the 1950s...
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Tony Kinsey, Tony Crombie, Jimmy Deuchar, John Dankworth, Pat Smythe, PhilSeamen, Zoot Sims, Carmen McRae, and Paul Gonsalves. Later in the 1960s he worked...
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