Education
After being awarded a full scholarship at the Birmingham Conservatoire at the Birmingham City University in Birmingham, England, Lightfoot graduated with honours in jazz music in 2007.
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In addition to being a saxophone session musician, he has composed music for various films, television series and television commercials. Through his saxophone studies with Julian Siegel and Jean Toussaint, he honed his musical-improvisation skills. He developed his own style, forging hard-bop lines with a cleaner popular vocabulary.
Over the years, the early influences of Cannonball Adderley and Michael Brecker gradually gave way to a more popular-based style of improvisation and he started his musical career as a session saxophonist with various popular artists.
Lightfoot has played with musicians including Leon Jackson, The Vaccines and Diana Vickers and Rhydian Roberts. Farleigh and The Paris 1940s Whilst in Birmingham he met like-minded musicians Pete Robertson (of The Vaccines), Martyn Spencer and Joe Archer.
They formed the popular band Farleigh and were signed by Accorder Music publishing in 2009. This led to their debut extended-play album with record producer Jez Coad.
Joined by singer Thom Kirkpatrick (of This Beautiful Noise), the band totally changed direction and formed The Paris 1940s in early 2010.
This marked a return to a more jazz-influenced popular, turning heads with their covers of the music of Lady Gaga, Motörhead and Oasis.
