John Harle
| John Harle | |
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Harle in 2001
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| Background information | |
| Born | 20 September 1956 |
| Origin | Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Genres | Hybrid, Pop, Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Saxophone |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Labels | Universal, EMI Classics, Decca, Argo, Unicorn-Kanchana, Hannibal, Sospiro |
| Notable instruments | |
| Soprano Saxophone | |
John Harle (born 20 September 1956, Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is an English saxophonist, composer, educator and record producer. He is an Ivor Novello Award winner and has been the recipient of two Royal Television Society awards.
Following his education at the Royal College of Music in London and in Paris with Daniel Deffayet as a French Government Music Scholar, he won the Amcon Award of The American Concert Artists Guild. In his early years, he was a member of the band of composer Michael Nyman and orchestrator for film composer Stanley Myers. expanding from there into scoring for film and television. In the 1990s, he began a career as saxophonist and composer, both artistically and commercially.
He composed the theme tune and music of six series for the BBC TV series Silent Witness and in May 1998 was the castaway on BBC Radio 4's long-running Desert Island Discs programme, with the BBC describing him as "the most-recorded saxophonist in the world".
He was artistic advisor to Sir Paul McCartney for six years, and has been collaborator with Elvis Costello, Herbie Hancock and Elmer Bernstein.
In addition to his own prolific recording, Harle has contributed directly or indirectly to a number of charting songs and albums by others. A jingle he wrote for Nissan in 1993 became the basis of a charting pop single by Jazzie B. He contributed to the charting albums Terror and Magnificence (1996) by Elvis Costello and Sarah Leonard, and Standing Stone (1997) by Paul McCartney.
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