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Alex Webb
Alex Webb was born in 1961 and educated at Manchester University and the University of Connecticut. He lives in London where he works in arts administration and as a songwriter and musician. He is the brother of the late guitarist and composer Nick Webb (the founder of Acoustic Alchemy), the nephew of actress Sylvia Syms and cousin of actress Beatie Edney.

Musical career
Since the 1980s Webb has played with numerous jazz, pop and reggae groups including Manchester's Carmel and Harlem Spirit. As a songwriter he has collaborated with Kim Appleby and many UK jazz musicians and vocalists, including Liane Carroll, Tammy Weis, Nicola Emmanuelle, Jo Harrop, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Alexander Stewart. Musicians he has performed live with include Guy Barker, Danny Moss, Gary Crosby and Denys Baptiste. He also performed as a percussionist in the London School of Samba for a period in the early 1990s.

Other work
Webb has worked at the BBC World Service, at BBC News Online and at BBC Radio 3. He has also worked in music publishing (at the UK Music Publishers Association) and at the music venues Band on the Wall in Manchester (1983-1986) and Peter Ind's Bass Clef in London (1988-1989). He has also worked a freelance journalist for many publications including the Guardian, the Independent, Straight No Chaser and New Statesman; from 1996-1997 he was a political journalist and researcher for Alastair Stewart's Sunday Programme on GMTV.