British jazz musician Tim Whitehead played the soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone and flute. He played in a folk group during school and later studied law at Manchester University. In 1976, he left his legal career to focus on music. Whitehead led the quartet "South of the Border" with guitarist Glenn Cartledge, winning the Young Jazz Musicians of the Year Award. He toured Germany in the late 1970s with Ian Carr's Nucleus and Graham Collier. In 1980, he founded his quartet, Borderline, and later joined Loose Tubes. Throughout the 1990s, Whitehead performed regularly at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. His album Personal Standards (1999) was named Jazz Album of the Year by BBC Music Magazine. In 2009, he served as Artist in Residence at Tate Britain, producing the album Colour Beginnings, inspired by J.M.W. Turner's watercolour sketches.
