Pete Lemer

keyboards

previous bands include:

PETE LEMER QUINTET, S.M.E., HARRY BECKETT, BAKER GURVITZ. ARMY,SEVENTH WAVE,

PIERRE MOERLIN'S. GONG, MIKE OLDFIELD. PHIL MILLER'S IN CAHOOTS. BARBARA THOMPSON'S PARAPHRENALIA.

Selected Discography:

Pete Lemer Quintet: LOCAL COLOUR. (E.S.P.)

John Stevens: S.M.E. (Oliv)

Harry Beckett: FRIENDS. (Gull)

Seventh Wave PSI-F]. (Gull)

Baker Gurvitz Army: ELYSIAN ENCOUNTER. (Mountain)

Barbara Thomson: JUBIABA. (MCA)

Pierre Moerlin's Gong:TIME IS THE KEY. (Arista)

Mike Oldfield: EXPOSED, (Virgin)

PLATINUM. (Virgin)

Phil Miller: CUTTING BOTH WAYS. (Cuneiform Recs)

IN CAHOOTS LIVE 86 -89. (Mantra Recs)

LIVE IN JAPAN. (Crescent Discs)

DIGGING IN. (Cuneiform Recs)

PARALLEL.(Crescent)

OUT OF THE BLUE (Crescent)

CONSPIRACY THEORIES (Crescent)

Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia: CRY FROM THE HEART, (Temple Music)

LIVE IN LONDON, (Temple Music)

BREATHLESS, (Temple Music)

EVERLASTING FLAME. (Temple Music)

Pete Lemer has been present on the British jazz scene since the early 1960's, and worked with bands like Gilgamesh and Pierre Moerlen's Gong, the Baker-Gurvitz Army, Seventh Wave, Mike Oldfield and many jazz and jazz-rock combos. Peter Lemer was born in London in 1942. Lessons with famed jazz pianist Paul Bley led to him to form his own jazz quartet featuring Jeff Clyne in 1963, recording Local Colour three years later. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music for three years. In 1969 he joined the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. In 1974, Pete joined Gilgamesh with fellow keyboard player Alan Gowen, taking part in several gigs and BBC sessions. He also played with Harry Beckett, Barbara Thompson, Annette Peacock and others. In 1979, Lemer was one of three keyboard players in Mike Oldfield's 50-piece touring band which also featured Gong drummer Pierre Moerlen. He guested on Moerlen's album Time Is The Key. Pete joined In Cahoots in 1983 and has played on seven of Phil's albums and toured Europe extensively with the band. He left in 1987 to rejoin Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia, notably for A Cry From The Heart (1987), Everlasting Flame (1993) and their latest offering, Shifting Sands, released in November 1998, which features several of Pete's compositions. Pete worked subsequently with Phil, guesting on his solo album Digging In (1991) and touring Japan with In Cahoots later that year. (He rejoined the band on a permanent basis in 1995. Recently, he has worked with Phil in duo and trio formats (with Fred Baker). 1999 was spent touring with Paraphernalia. Pete's latest project was Phil Miller's Out Of The Blue recorded in 2000.

This information is taken from Aymeric Leroy's excellent website Calyx.