Henry Lowther (musician)

Henry Lowther (b. Thomas Henry Lowther, 11 July 1941, Leicester, Leicestershire) is an English jazz trumpeter.

Lowther's first experience was on cornet in a Salvation Army band. He studied violin briefly at the Royal Academy of Music but had returned to trumpet by 1960. In the 1960s, he worked with Mike Westbrook [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-75943098.html] (beginning in 1963 and continuing into the 1980s), John Dankworth (1967-77), Graham Collier (1967), John Warren (1968 and subsequently), Neil Ardley (1968), and Bob Downes (1969). Many of these associations continued into the 1970s, along with new ones such as with Mike Gibbs (1970-76), Kenny Wheeler (from 1972), Alan Cohen (1972), Michael Garrick (1972-73), Kurt Edelhagen (1974), John Taylor (1974), Stan Tracey (1976 onwards), Tony Coe (1976), Graham Collier (1976-78), Jubiaba with Barbara Thompson (1978), and Gordon Beck (1978), in addition to his own ensemble, Quaternity.

He worked with Peter King from 1983, and with Gil Evans in 1984. In 1986 he worked with Humphrey Lyttelton in his reconstruction of the John Robichaux Orchestra for a documentary film on Buddy Bolden. He played with Charlie Watts's band in 1986-87, then led his own band, Still Waters, in 1987. From the late 1980s he did much work in big bands, such as the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (1989-93), the London Jazz Composers Orchestra (1989-96), Kenny Wheeler's group (1990), the Dedication Orchestra (1994), the London Jazz Orchestra (1994), George Russell's Living Time Orchestra, and the Creative Jazz Orchestra (1996) snd recently in a new band Jazzmoss [http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/jazz/2008/09/22/get-ready-for-ms-colman-s-stunning-new-album-65233-21872902/] .

References

Fairweather/Adams/Kernfeld, "Henry Lowther". "Grove Jazz" online.