Tim Whitehead

b. 12 December 1950, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Whitehead had clarinet lessons as a child and played in a folk group at school before reading law at university. In 1976, he turned professional playing tenor saxophone and in the following year formed South Of The Border, which he led with Glenn Cartledge (guitar), which won the Greater London Arts Association jazz competition. In the years that followed he worked with various bands including Nucleus and Graham Collier's Band before forming his own outfit Borderline (1980) for which he wrote much of the music. In 1984, he j...