An award-winning musician and San Francisco State College lecturer was killed when his car was struck by a number of trains, officers stated.
Andrew Speight, 58, died Thursday afternoon when his car obtained trapped on the Caltrain tracks close to Broadway Station in Burlingame. A northbound and a southbound practice hit the car, Caltrain officers stated.
Speight was born in Sydney and moved to the US to show music. A prolific jazz musician, the alto saxophonist launched a critically acclaimed album in 1999 with the Andrew Speight Quartet; it went on to win an Aria Award, Australia’s model of the Grammys.
“He lived the life an artist in pursuit of his muse which was in jazz music,” pal Simon Rowe advised NBC Bay Space, “and [he was] always engaged on his enjoying, always studying to enhance himself and with that, tirelessly creating neighborhood across the artwork kind, each as a trainer and a mentor and an unimaginable alto saxophone participant.”
Speight’s biography on the SF State Faculty of Music web site calls him “a clear-toned, hard-driving alto sax participant — one of many Bay Space’s most vigorous and lyrical exponents of straight-ahead, joyous jazz.”
“Speight has been within the U.S. because the early 90s, main jazz applications first at Michigan State College and now at San Francisco State College,” it goes on. “However most significantly, Speight has been blowing the doorways off of each joint fortunate sufficient to have him on the bandstand.”
