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Tyndale, George
(Sibornia) [Sky] (b Manchester,
Jamacia 15 June 1913; d Dorking, England, 4 Dec. 1991). Jamaican tenor
saxophonist and clarinetist. He started on clarinet and worked in
Bermuda and on Canadian cruise ships before taking up saxophone. As a
key soloist in the society band of the pianist Milton McPherson he
became the leading tenor saxophonist of his generation in Jamaica.
ln 1945 he moved to England to join Jiver Hutchinson, with whom
he remained for five years and made tours of India and Europe. He then
worked in Cambridge with the trumpeter Ken Turner. With Cab Kaye he
toured Belgium and Holland (1950-51),after which he rejoined
Hutchinson to tour Sweden and worked with Joe Harriott. A generous,
expansive soloist in the style of Ben Webster, Tyndale developed a
reputation for reliability as a section player and worked with Ted
Heath, Harry Gold, and the Squadronaires. He recorded with Caribbean
singers and appeared extensively at nightclubs, in particular with Joe
Appleton's band and for a period as a leader at the Sunset, a rendezvous
popular with London's black population. Tyndale attained national
prominence when he changed to baritone saxophone on joining John
Dankworth’s orchestra in 1960; he then spent several years with
semi-professional groups.
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SELECTED
RECORDINGS
As sideman: J.Hutchinson: Cherokee/She’s Funny
that way (1947, Sup.
C18167); Annie
Laurie/I Can’t Get Started
(1947, Sup. C18167); Exactly like You/Rosetta (1947, Sup.
C18168), C. Kaye: Saturday Night Fish Fry/ School-bop (1951), 1 ,
Astraschall 4005); Mood Indigo/Solitude (1951, Astraschall 4001); P.
Pitterson: Mango Time (1951, Esquire 5-053) [ci]; Ivan Browne: Little
Fly (1954, London CAY108); Rupert Nurse: Lord Kittchener “Birth of
Ghana” (1956, Melodisc 1390); on [no leader:] African Waltz (1960, Col. SEG8137), J. Dankworth: African Waltz,
Moanin’; J. Dankworth: The
Criminal (1960, Col. SEG8037)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Obituary, V. Wilmer, The
Independent (23 Jan 1992)
J. Dankworth: Jazz in Revolution (London, 1998)
VAL WILMER
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