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Terry Brown was born in Islington in north London in 1928. He was playing the trumpet at the age of thirteen and was playing local gigs at the age fourteen. In 1945 he joined Johnny Claes when he was only sixteen years old. During the next few years he worked with a string of top name bands including Harry Roy and Tony Crombie. When the first bebop records arrived in Britain Terry was swept along by the sounds of the new jazz and idolised the playing of Fats Navarro. He was the trumpet player in the original Johnny Dankworth Seven in the spring of 1950. In 1951 he was with Ralph Sharon and Teddy Foster before joining Kenny Graham in August, 1951. He led a band of his own from October, 1951 until the spring of 1952 when he again worked with Ralph Sharon, Kenny Graham and Harry Hayes. For the next few years he freelanced in the London jazz clubs, including working with the Harry Klein Quintet in 1953 and the Joe Harriott Quintet and Don Rendell in 1957. After a spell with Bruce Turner's Jump Band up to October, 1958 he left full time playing to become a successful recording manager. Brown's only recorded work was with Kenny Graham: Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists - October 8th, 1952 (Esquire) Terry Brown (tp), Kenny Graham (ts), Ralph Dollimore (p), Bruce Swain (b), Dicky Devere (d) + maracas, conga and bongo. Boom/Barbados/All The King's Horses/Peanut Vendor. ...back
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| Wilton 'Bogey' Gaynair born in Jamaica in 1927, he learned to play the tenor saxophone in Jamaica and studied in Germany before coming to play in London in 1959. He made a classic record for Tempo in 1959 which has been re-issued , before returning to Germany where he played for many years with Kurt Edelhagen's Orchestra. A further Tempo record session with Shake Keane from 1960 has just been re-issued on CD. He suffered a stroke in the 1980s which left him unable to play and he died in Germany in 1995. Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair Quartet - August 26th, 1959 (Tempo TAP 25) (JM0460) Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair (ts), Terry Shannon (p), Kenny Napper (b), Bill Eyden (d). Wilton's Mood*/Deborah*/Joy Spring*/Rhythm*/Blues For Tony*/The Way You Look Tonight*/Gone With The Wind*. (*Jasmine CD - Blue Bogey) Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair/Shake Keane Quintet - 1960 (Tempo, unissued) Shake Keane (tp), Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair (ts), Terry Shannon (p), Jeff Clyne (b), Bill Eyden (d). Africa Calling*/Kingston By Pass*/Blue Ghana*/Way You Look Tonight*/Just For Jan*/Rianyag*. (*Candid CD - Africa Calling) ...back Benny Green 
A baritone sax player who was a regular member of the legendary Ronnie Scott Jazz Group and Ronnie Scott Orchestra from 1953 through to 1956. He also played on a number of recording dates organised by drummer Tony Crombie with whom he had played in the Ronnie Scott Orchestra.A man of many talents who earned a living from his saxophone for twenty years before becoming, for 15 years, a successful BBC presenter for jazz and other musical programs. He was jazz critic for The Observer newspaper for 19 years and a successful author on books as varied as cricket, music and George Bernard Shaw. He wrote musicals, including a collaboration with Johnny Dankworth, as well as other theatre work. see also the following discographies: Ronnie Scott, Tony Crombie. ...back Pete Pitterson Trumpeter Pete Pitterson was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1921, moving to Britain in 1946 to join the big band of Leslie 'Jiver' Hutchinson. He went to Sweden with Hutchinson and later established himself in London leading the band at the Sunset on Carnaby Street. He also played at the Fullado Club and broadcast with Jack Fallon's Band. In the late 1940s he played with Ivor Kirchin, toured with Vic Lewis and had a couple of stints with the renowed Tommy Sampson Band, and again with Leslie 'Jiver' Hutchinson. In 1950 he was with the Leon Roy Big Band, a star studded line up that played the music of the Dizzy Gillespie big bebop band. In 1951 he made his name radio debut as a guest with pianist Eddie Thompson on the BBCs Jazz for Moderns. He introduced Joe Harriott to his first British audience at the Conway Hall, but despite a Gillespie inspired fleetness he failed to gain a wider reputation. In the early 1950s he went back into dance band work, sometimes leading his own group which during a year in Birmingham broadcast on the BBC. He had a spell with Ambrose at other times freelancing. Glaucoma forced him to retire from playing in the late 1980s and he died at the age of 73 in 1994. ...back Stu Hamer Trumpeter Stu Hamer is the brother of trumpet player Ian Hamer. I can find no biographical information of any significance. In his teens, like his brother he played in the band run by their mother Mary Daly Hamer in the Merseyside area. His only record available in the UK is a 1967 session with the Joe Harriott Quintet that proves him to be a superb trumpeter in the classic bebop style. In the late 1950s he was playing in Germany and appeared on a couple of record dates: June 23rd, 1958 An eleven piece band including Zoot Sims and Kenny Clarke - recorded somewhere in Germany... September 29th, 1959 This was a twelve piece band of mostly German musicians and they recorded one title in Berlin... Joe Harriott Quintet - June 20th, 1967 (Melodisc SLP12-150) Joe Harriott (as), Stu Hamer (tp), Pat Smythe (p), Coleridge Goode (b), Phil Seamen (d). Tuesday Morning Swing*/A Time For Love*/The Rake*/Blues In C*/Shepherd's Serenade*/Polka Dots And Moonbeams*/Strollin' South*/Just Goofin'*/Count Twelve. (*Cadillac CD - Joe Harriott Quintet Swings High) On November 7th, 1968 the Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band played a 20th and 30th anniversary concert in Berlin. The five piece trumpet section included Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Reece and Stu Hamer and the record was issued on the German label MPS... c1968 the Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra played a another concert in Europe, probably Italy. The five piece trumpet section included Gillespie, Reece and Hamer and the band recorded one title which was issued on an Italian label... 
Keith Greenhalf adds the following:"He played with a latin group called 'Bolivar' around the 1984/87 period and appears on one title with them from a cd recorded at the Bass Clef Studio over the club in probably 1986. That title is 'Merengue' and the cd sleeve says he appears as a special guest. He seems to have played regularly with them in this period. The cd is called 'Samba con Salsa' on Bassclef 31". | ||