Mike Osborne

Mike Osborne (1941-2007) was an English jazz alto saxophonist, born and died in Hereford. Active in the London jazz and free jazz scene of the late 1960s and 1970s, he played with Mike Westbrook, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath and John Surman, and led his own trio until illness ended his career in 1982. Osborne studied at the Guildhall School of Music and joined Westbrook's first band in 1962.