Hello! Thanks for visiting my website. I am a jazz saxophone player and composer based in the UK. My repertoire draws on bebop, hardbop, latin jazz, more contemporary jazz standards and my own compositions. I have several projects on the go:

Pete Canter's OCTOBER QUINTET was formed in 2007 to play my contemporary jazz compositions. Initially billed as the Pete Canter Quintet, the musicians are myself on saxophone, Tim Sayer (tpt/flgl), Ian Wright (pno), Kevin Sanders (bss) and Dave Sheen (dms).

The Pete Canter Quartet is known for its high-intensity straight-ahead hardbop and latin material and is a regular at jazz venues and festivals across the southwest and further afield. It has several incarnations including my Exeter based band with Ian Wright (pno), Andy Tunbridge (bss) and Dave Sheen (dms), a line up with exciting Bristol-based pianist Jim Blomfield, Wayne Elliot (bss) and Gary Evans (dms) which works around the Bristol, Bath and Cheltenham area, and a new combo with James Clemas (piano), John Donolly (bass) and Gary Evans (drums) which is working on my original tunes.

The Pete Canter Trio works regularly in smaller venues and usually comprises either Ian Wright (piano) & Andy Tunbridge (bass) or Jim Blomfield (piano) & Wayne Elliot (bass).

Pete Canter & Ian Wright is a popular sax-piano duo playing around restaurants, wine bars and other small venues. We have a large repertoire of modern jazz ranging from mainstream standards to contemporary latin and original tunes.

Lazybird is a function band with Claire Hoinville (vcls), Ian Wright (pno), Andy Tunbridge (bss) and Gary Evans (congas) which plays laid back jazz, latin and soul music.

My latest project, Locked Horns, is a fledgling saxophone quartet with myself (tenor), Jo Frend & Joel Cordon (altos) and Pete Hodges (baritone). We are putting together a set of jazz arrangements with lots of room for improvisation.

In 2005/6 I received a grant from Artsmatrix to study composition with internationally renowned saxophonist/composer Iain Ballamy and during the past year Iain has performed with my quartet on several occasions, most recently at the Queens Theatre Barnstaple as part of the 2007 North Devon Festival and at the 2007 Teignmouth Jazz Festival.

I have recently produced a CD "So Far" which is a compilation of recordings made over the past few years with several different bands and this is available for sale on gigs, direct from me or from www.jazzcds.co.uk . The recordings feature many fine musicians: pianists Paul Harris, Dhevdhas Nair, Ian Wright, and Jim Blomfield, guitarist James Shipway, bassists Andy Tunbridge, Riaan Vosloo and Wayne Elliot and drummers Mark Heyward and Dave Sheen.

Over the last few years I have played at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Teignmouth Jazz Festival, Bude Jazz Festival, Hayne Barton Jazz Festival, Exeter Vibraphonic Festival, Exeter Summer Festival, Exeter Autumn Festival, Taunton Jazz Festival, North Devon Festival and Pontypool Jazz Festival. My bands have supported Polar Bear and Kyle Eastwood and I have played with Iain Ballamy, Harry Beckett, Ted Beament, and Jim Fryer. I was recently featured in one of the PRS-MCPS monthly podcasts of  new composers.