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‘I became interested in jazz after listening to Indian classical music’
Chris Searle speaks with trumpeter HENRY LOWTHER
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“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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