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‘I became interested in jazz after listening to Indian classical music’
Chris Searle speaks with trumpeter HENRY LOWTHER
Henry Llowther
[Courtesy of Henry Llowther]
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
“MUSIC has been my whole life and I don't seem able to stop. Nor do I want to.” So declared veteran trumpeter and violinist Henry Lowther about his lifetime in jazz.
Born in Leicester in 1941, his father was an ex-coal miner made redundant in County Durham in 1936, who moved to Leicester and worked as a labourer and car sprayer. His mother was an occasional cleaner and school dinner lady.
“I did come from a musical home as my father and his two brothers were Salvation Army bandsmen. My first exposure to music was listening to brass bands, although as a teenager I liked classical music.
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