Stu Hamer
Stuart " Stu " Hamer ( born 1934 in Liverpool ) is a British jazz musician (trumpet, piano later ).
Life and work
Hamer, whose family built the dance hall Grafton Rooms for operation, in which the Duke Ellington Orchestra occurred, had along with his brothers George and Ian Hamer he had first appearances in the volume of his mother. In 1957 he moved to Germany, where he first played at Roland Kovac ( appearance on the German Jazz Festival 1958). In 1959 he as Albert Mangelsdorff and Oscar Pettiford was one of the German All Stars, replacing Dusko Goykovich in hr- jazz ensemble. He also has performed with Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson. In 1961 he worked in Munich and Essen with the Anglo - Swedish Jazz 5 In the next few years he worked in Sweden, where he heard Big Band in the bands of Putte Wickman, Leif ASP, Povel Ramel and directed by George Russell Emanon had. Then he accompanied - back in the UK - with Cyril Stapleton transient, stars such as Sammy Davis Jr. and completed in 1966 Joe Harriott on, with its Indo- jazz stars he performed in Europe. In the late 1960s he went with Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band and JJ Johnson on tour; thereafter he concentrated on composing. It was not until 1982 he entered again as a trumpeter in appearance, both with his own band as well as with the International Highlife Band from Ghana, with which he can be heard on several albums. He is now focused on African music and lived for some time in Africa before he went twice in Canada with Native Spirit on tour. He also appeared in London with African musicians, before he moved for health reasons in the late 1980s to the piano, and again concentrated on writing songs.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Jazz Legacy Baden Baden Unreleased Radio Tapes: The Concert 23 6 1958 ( Delta, with Willie Dennis, Adi flint, Gerd Husemann, Zoot Sims, Hans Koller, Helmut Brandt, Roland Kovac, Lasser Werner, Peter Trunk, Kenny Clarke)
- Ronnie Ross Big Band Old Friends & New Faces from Britain (1966 )
- Joe Harriott Swings High ( Melodisc 1967 with Pat Smythe, Coleridge Goode, Phil Seamen )
- The Greatest Little Soul Band in the Land - JJ Jackson ( 1969)