David Panton

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DAVID (DAVE) PANTON ...........................was born in the mid 1940s in the English Midlands. His formative musical experience revolved around singing: in the local church choir and later with a mixed voice choir and an amateur operatic society. He began teaching himself 'classical' piano from the age of twelve, and by fifteen had begun to compose by improvising at the keyboard. At seventeen he joined the army as a bandsman, taking up the oboe and being posted for a year to Kneller Hall, the Military School of Music (1964-65); later he attended Birmigham School of Music (now Birmingham Conservatoire) for piano tuition under the late William Fellowes (1966-67). His composing continued but took on a more modern direction which was largely unintelligible to his military colleagues. After four years as a bandsman he resigned to pursue a musical career back in 'civvy' street, taking up the alto saxophone as a result of hearing some of the American and British 'free-jazz' players of the time such as Ornette Coleman and Mike Osborne. Although by the 1970s he had received or given a handful of performances of his fully composed works and continued to work in this way, it was the 'free-form' jazz area which he began to concentrate upon, forming several such groupings as well as giving solo performances at the Birmingham Arts Lab, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham a nd Midlands Institute and numerous pubs. By now he had made contact with some of the London based musicians as

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David Panton's One Music Ensemble 1977

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Derek Bailey Plus One Music Ensemble

David Panton - Solo Saxophone

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To Absent Friends (1981)

David Panton's One Music Ensemble (1976 & 78)

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How Ya Doin?

David Panton's One Music Ensemble (Live at Aston University Centre for the Arts 1980)

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David Panton's One Music - EP

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One Music Ensemble

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An Introduction to the Music of David Panton

Impromptus and Sonatas - EP

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Sketches of Africa

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