Henry Lowther (musician)


Thomas Henry Lowther is an English jazz trumpeter.

Biography

Born in Leicester in 1941, Lowther's first musical experience was on cornet in a Salvation Army band. He studied violin briefly at the Royal Academy of Music but returned to trumpet by 1960, though he sometimes played violin professionally. In the 1960s, he worked with Mike Westbrook, Manfred Mann, John Dankworth, Graham Collier, John Mayall, John Warren, Neil Ardley, and Bob Downes. Many of these associations continued into the 1970s.
Lowther appeared for some time with the Keef Hartley Band, playing with him at Woodstock, the music festival held in New York in August 1969. In the 1970s he worked with Mike Gibbs, Kenny Wheeler, Alan Cohen, Michael Garrick, Kurt Edelhagen, John Taylor, Stan Tracey, Tony Coe, Graham Collier, Jubiaba with Barbara Thompson and Gordon Beck, in addition to his own ensemble, Quaternity. Lowther played the trumpet solo for Elton John on "Return to Paradise" for John's 1978 album A Single Man.
He worked with Buzzcocks in 1980, Talk Talk from 1983 to 1991, 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, the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Kenny Wheeler's group, The Dedication Orchestra, the London Jazz Orchestra, George Russell's Living Time Orchestra, the Creative Jazz Orchestra and Jazzmoss.

Discography

With Neil Ardley
With Jack Bruce
With Graham Collier
With John Dankworth
With David Essex
With Michael Gibbs
With Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers Orchestra
With Keef Hartley
With John Mayall
With Talk Talk
With Colin Towns
With Stan Tracey
With Mike Westbrook
With Kenny Wheeler
With others