Caleb Quaye

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Caleb Quaye (born in London on 9 October 1948) is an English rock guitarist who co-founded Hookfoot and a studio musician known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with Elton John, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Paul McCartney, Hall & Oates and Ralph McTell. He is the son of jazz musician Cab Kaye, younger brother of musician Terri Quaye, and older half-brother of former 1990s singer Finley Quaye. Quaye is known most notably as Elton John’s original lead guitarist having played on all the “early stuff”, as well as numerous studio sessions for many other name artists, such as Harry Nillson, Beach Boys, Joan Baez,Al Kooper,David Foster,John Klemmer, Eddie Henderson, Dusty Springfield,Liza Minnelli, Peter Kriss, Pete Townsend and Hall & Oates just to name a few. Eric Clapton deemed Quaye the "world's best guitar player." In April 1970, Quaye formed the band Hookfoot with Ian Duck, Roger Pope and David Glover, all of whom were DJM Records house musicians and had backed Elton's earliest live performances. From 2008 on, Quaye released two jazz-rock fusion CDs. The first one was One Night in San Dimas, with Out of the Blue as the 2010 follow-up album. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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