Bob Sedergreen

Bob Sedergreen
Bob Sedergreen Melbourne, January 2007
Background information
Birth name	Robert Sedergreen
Born	1943 British Palestine
Genres	Jazz, Blues
Occupation(s)	Musician Teacher Bandleader
Instruments	Piano, Keyboards
Years active	1962 to Present
Associated acts	Jimmy Witherspoon, Ted Vining
Website	Official Site

Bob Sedergreen (born 1943) is an Australian jazz pianist. Sedergreen has had a long and distinguished career as a performer, bandleader and educator. He has collaborated with leading Australian artists, including John Sangster, Don Burrows, and Brian Brown, and supported some of the biggest names in jazz, including Nat Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie and Milt Jackson.

Sedergreen was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1943 to Seamus "Jim" Sedergreen, a British Warrant Officer First Class, and Leah Erlichman, a milliner. In 1947, the British government sent the P&O steam ship Otranto to evacuate all British families, as the British Mandate was coming to an end and Palestine would finally become Israel. Bob, together with his mother, and his sisters Joyce and Millie, settled in London and his father followed in 1948. Bob moved to Australia in November 1951, where he lived in Melbourne and briefly attended Armadale State School before transferring to Haileybury College, a Presbyterian school for boys.

Bob played with the Fred Bradshaw Quartet (1962–70), Ted Vining Trio (1971–2007), Alan Lee's Plant (1973), Brian Brown's Quintet (1974) and Brian Brown's Quartet (1977–79). In the 1980s, he worked with the Australian Jazz Ensemble, Onaje and Peter Gaudion's Blues Express and the popular Blues on the Boil.

Bob has toured extensively both around Australia and overseas, including Montreal, Malaysia and Europe. He has been advisor to the Montsalvat International Jazz Festival and involved in the introduction of new talent as well as negotiating and supervising the Nat Adderley Quintet and the McCoy Tyner Trio.