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Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott
British musician
1
Roy Babbington
Roy Babbington
British bassist
2
Nucleus
Nucleus
British band
3
Back Door
Back Door
British band
4
Matching Mole
Matching Mole
band
5
Tony Coe
Tony Coe
British jazz musician
6
Allan Ganley
Allan Ganley
British musician
7
Norma Winstone
Norma Winstone
English jazz singer
8
Martin Drew
Martin Drew
British musician
9
Rick Laird
Rick Laird
Irish musician
10
Steve Smith
Steve Smith
American drummer
11
Centipede
Centipede
British musical group
12
Soft Machine
Soft Machine
English rock band
13
Harry Beckett
Harry Beckett
Barbadian musician
14
Tim Garland
Tim Garland
British musician
15
Phil Miller
Phil Miller
British musician
16
Gordon Beck
Gordon Beck
British musician
17
Theo Travis
Theo Travis
British saxophonist
18
Cal Tjader
Cal Tjader
American Latin jazz musician, recording artist
19
Jeff Clyne
Jeff Clyne
British bassist
20
Dick Morrissey
Dick Morrissey
British jazz musician
21
Stan Tracey
Stan Tracey
British pianist
22
Michael Gibbs
Michael Gibbs
Rhodesian born English jazz composer
23
Gary Meek
Gary Meek
American musician
24
Ray Warleigh
Ray Warleigh
Australian musician
25
Neil Ardley
Neil Ardley
British jazz musician
26
Hugh Hopper
Hugh Hopper
English bass guitarist
27
Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae
American jazz musician and actress
28
Tubby Hayes
Tubby Hayes
British jazz musician
29
Simon Spillett
Simon Spillett
British musician
30
Nick Fatool
Nick Fatool
American musician
31
Brian Kellock
Brian Kellock
British musician
32
Phil Seamen
Phil Seamen
English jazz drummer
33
Iain Ballamy
Iain Ballamy
British musician
34
Dave Pell
Dave Pell
American musician
35
Ian Shaw
Ian Shaw
UK singer, pianist, songwriter, comedian
36
Ted Heath
Ted Heath
British musician
37
Joe Gallivan
Joe Gallivan
American musician
38
Ian Carr
Ian Carr
British trumpeter
39
Mike Westbrook
Mike Westbrook
English pianist
40
Victor Feldman
Victor Feldman
English recording artist; jazz musician, vibraphonist
41
Tony Levin
Tony Levin
English jazz drummer
42
Bryson Graham
Bryson Graham
English rock drummer
43
Terry Reid
Terry Reid
British musician
44
Dave Holland
Dave Holland
British musician
45
Andy Panayi
Andy Panayi
British musician
46
Sal Nistico
Sal Nistico
American musician
47
Dale Barlow
Dale Barlow
Australian musician
48
The Blue Notes
The Blue Notes
South African jazz sextet
49
Peter King
Peter King
British musician
50
Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
51
Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum
musician
52
Dave Walker
Dave Walker
English rock singer
53
Larry Van Kriedt
Larry Van Kriedt
American musician
54
Tim Landers
Tim Landers
American musician
Dave MacRae
New Zealand musician

Dave MacRae

Intro
New Zealand musician
Genres
Music

David Scott MacRae (born 2 April 1940, Auckland, New Zealand) is a keyboardist from New Zealand, noted for his contributions in jazz and jazz rock, and his collaborations with musicians from the Canterbury scene.

MacRae studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music and then worked in Australia in the 1960s as an arranger for Festival Records. He moved to the United States in 1969, playing with experimental groups in Los Angeles before joining Buddy Rich's ensemble in 1970. He relocated to London in 1971, working that year with jazz musicians Clark Terry, Chet Baker, Jon Hendricks and Gil Evans.

In 1971 he was briefly with a group called Caparius before he joined Matching Mole, where he remained until 1972. In March 1973 he recorded for the Labyrinth album with Ian Carr's group Nucleus. Concurrently he played in Elton Dean's band Just Us. He played in WMWM and Giles Farnaby's Dream Band in 1973 and did session work for Back Door in 1974, but left Nucleus around this time to concentrate on his own project called Pacific Eardrum, which he led with his wife Joy Yates until 1979. He continued working with Canterbury musicians such as Robert Wyatt, Mike Gibbs, and Richard Sinclair through the 1970s.

In the 1980s MacRae worked briefly with False Alarm, a band led by Allan Holdsworth which eventually became I.O.U. with the addition of vocalist Paul Williams; and then played in a reconstituted version of Soft Machine in 1984. During the 15 years he spent in the U.K., MacRae also worked with Ronnie Scott, Clifford Jordan, Annie Ross, Cliff Richard, and Scott Walker, and as musical director to The Goodies television show from series six/1976.

He returned to Australia later in 1984, and played in the Sydney area with Bernie McGann and Ronnie Scott.

He is the father of singer Jade MacRae.