| Biography | Joe Saye was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1923. He was blind from the age of two and learnt to play piano and accordian, touring with Roy Fox, playing accordian in 1937-'38. After eight years in vaudeville he formed his own group and played club bookings and summer seasons in the 1940s and in 1950 he was in Howard Lucraft's sextet playing accordian. He again led his own trio in the early 1950s and in 1953 formed a sextet for a London club residency.
He emigrated to the US in August, 1955 and enjoyed success throughout North America with his own group, (Joe Saye's Scottish Jazz Trio), and as an accompanist for Dakota Staton among others. He moved from New York to Toronto, Canada in the early 1970s to run his own booking agency. He recorded in London and New York |