Bob Sedergreen

Bob Sedergreen is a renowned Australian jazz pianist. Bob has had a long and distinguished career as a performer, bandleader and educator. He has collaborated with leading Australian artists, such as John Sangster, Don Burrows, Brian Brown and Judy Jacques, and supported some of the biggest names in jazz, including Nat Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie and Milt Jackson. Sedergreen was born in British Palestine in 1943 to Seamus (James, Jim) Sedergreen, a British Warrant Officer First Class, and Leah Erlichman, a milliner. In 1947, His Majesty's government sent the P&O steam ship Ortranto to evacuate all British families, as the British Mandate was coming to an end and Palestine would finally become Israel. Bob, together with his mother, and his...