Mike Westbrook, the English jazz pianist and composer, died on April 11, 2026, at the age of 90.
Born Michael John David Westbrook in High Wycombe in 1936 and raised in Torquay, he studied painting in Plymouth after a spell in accountancy and National Service. He began his first bands there in 1958, later moving to London in 1962, where he led numerous bands, large and small, and played regularly at the Old Place and the Little Theatre Club at Garrick Yard, St Martin’s Lane.
He was also a writer of orchestrated jazz pieces and was married to musician, librettist and painter Kate Westbrook.
Mike Westbrook, 90, English jazz pianist and composer.