Alex Webb (musician)

Alex Webb (born 1961) is a British songwriter and musician and former journalist. Educated at Manchester University and the University of Connecticut, he is the brother of the late guitarist and composer Nick Webb (the founder of Acoustic Alchemy), the nephew of actress Sylvia Syms and cousin of actress Beatie Edney.

Since the 1980s Webb has played with numerous jazz, pop and reggae groups including Manchester's Carmel and Harlem Spirit. As a songwriter he has collaborated with many UK jazz musicians and vocalists, including Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Tammy Weis, Nicola Emmanuelle, Jo Harrop, and Alexander Stewart. His songs have been recorded by Liane Carroll, China Moses, Alexia Gardner, Mina Agossi, and Alexander Stewart, among others. Musicians he has performed live with include Gary Crosby, Guy Barker, Danny Moss, Denys Baptiste, Nathaniel Facey, Gwyneth Herbert and China Moses. He also performed as a percussionist in the London School of Samba for a period in the early 1990s.

Since 2008, he has also directed and performed in a number of music and spoken word productions, including the jazz history shows 'Strayhorn the Songwriter' (about composer/arranger Billy Strayhorn) in 2010 and 'Jazz at Cafe Society' (about the 1940s New York club) in 2011 – both commissioned by the London Jazz Festival. 'Jazz at Cafe Society' had a successful run at London's Tricycle Theatre in July 2012 and was repeated at London's Leicester Square Theatre as 'Cafe Society Swing' in December 2013 and June 2014. In November 2013, Webb created a narrated jazz show based on two years in the life of the great jazz musician Charlie Parker called Charlie Parker on Dial which played at the London Jazz Festival and subsequently at London's Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.

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