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Django Bates
Beckenham, United Kingdom
Django Bates is credited on 173 releases across 63 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1984–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
173
Pressings credited
63
Albums
5
Decades active
8
In collections
Biography
Django Bates (born Leon Bates, 2 October 1960) is a British jazz musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, band leader and educator. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. Bates has been described as "one of the most talented musicians Britain has produced... his work covers the entire spectrum of jazz, from early jazz through to bebop and free jazz to jazz-rock fusion." In addition to his jazz work, he is also a classical composer (writing both large- and small-scale compositions on commission), theatre composer, and has taught as a professor at various European music schools. As a leader, his bands have included Human Chain, Delightful Precipice, Quiet Nights, Powder Room Collapse Orchestra and Belovèd, and he was also a leading figure in Loose Tubes and Bill Bruford's Earthworks.
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Credited work
173 releases · 63 albums · active 1984–2025
- Performance · 512
- Other credits · 39
- Production · 4
Studios: Rainbow Studio · Spaceward Studios · Terminal 24 Studios · CMP Studio, Zerkall
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Bill Bruford's Earthworks
- Various
- Sidsel Endresen
- Iain Ballamy
- Billy Jenkins
- First House
- Human Chain
- Anouar Brahem
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