An experimental jazz pianist, Keith Tippett (born Keith Graham Tippetts in
Bristol on August 25, 1947) formed a septet in his teens, then collaborated with
saxophonist Elton Dean's sextet. After marrying singer Julie Driscoll, a
collaborator of Brian Auger, he played with Shelagh McDonald and formed the big
band Centipede, which recorded the album Septober Energy (1970), produced by
Robert Fripp. Fripp then recruited him as a member of his group King Crimson,
for the albums In the Wake of Poseidon, Lizard and Islands, and the beginnings
of a prolific solo career that included som...