Bob Bertles

Bob Bertles (6 March 1939 – 30 December 2024) was an Australian jazz alto, tenor and baritone saxophonist and bandleader.

Life and career Bertles was born in Melbourne on 6 March 1939. A self-taught musician, Bertles in the late 1950s and early 60s was a member of the developing modern jazz scene that grew out of venues like the Mocambo in Newtown and the El Rocco Jazz Cellar in Sydney's Kings Cross.

Active in clubs, on TV, as a session musician and on the pop-rock scene, he toured with Johnny O'Keefe.

In 1967 Bertles temporarily joined Sydney-based rock-soul band Max Merritt & The Meteors. In 1974, after the group split, Bertles joined Ian Carr's Nucleus.