Neville Whitehead (bassist)
Neville Whitehead is a New Zealand jazz bassist and luthier.
Whitehead played at times in Keith Tippett's sextet in the late 1960s, including alongside Elton Dean.[1] He appears on The Keith Tippett Group's Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening (1971). Whitehead played live with Elton Dean, Robert Wyatt and Marc Charig in late 1970[2] and again alongside Wyatt on Wyatt's own The End of an Ear (1970). Both of them played with Jean-Luc Ponty, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Michał Urbaniak, guitarist Terje Rypdal and others at the 1971 Berlin Jazz Festival's New Violin Summit.[3] Whitehead also appeared on Soft Machine's BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (1971)[4], Harris' Sugar Cane's Got the Blues (1972) and on some tracks of the Neil Ardley/Ian Carr/Don Rendell album Greek Variations (1970).
Whitehead was part of the Elton Dean Quartet in 1971 and appears on Elton Dean (a.k.a. Just Us; 1971). Whitehead remained with the band for live shows as Just Us in 1972. He later appeared on Isotope's Deep End (1976).
Whitehead now lives in Australia, working as bass luthier.