Stu Hamer

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Stuart "Stu" Hamer (* 1934 in Liverpool ) is a British jazz musician ( trumpet , later piano ).

Live and act

Hamer, whose family ran the Grafton Rooms dance palace , in which the Duke Ellington Orchestra also performed, had his first appearances in his mother's band with his brothers George and Ian Hamer . In 1957 he moved to Germany, where he first played with Roland Kovac (appearance at the German Jazz Festival 1958). In 1959 he belonged to the German All Stars like Albert Mangelsdorff and Oscar Pettiford and replaced Dusko Goykovich in the Frankfurt Radio Jazz Ensemble . He has also 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 worked in the bands of Putte Wickman , Leif ASP, Povel Ramel and of George Russell led Emanon Big Band could be heard. Then he accompanied - again in Great Britain - with Cyril Stapleton traveling stars like Sammy Davis Jr. and in 1966 he joined Joe Harriott , with whose Indo-Jazz Stars he performed in Europe. In the late 1960s he toured with Dizzy Gillespie's Reunion Big Band and JJ Johnson ; after that he concentrated on composing. It was not until 1982 that he appeared again as a trumpeter, both with his own band and with the High Life International Band from Ghana, with whom he can be heard on several albums. He now focused on African music and lived in Africa for some time before touring Canada twice with Native Spirit . He also performed with African musicians in London before switching to the piano for health reasons in the late 1980s and concentrating again on writing songs.

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  1. ↑ The History of the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt (1953-1966) ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wolfgang-dohl.de
  2. ↑ Albert Mangelsdorff Vita ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Juliana Strauss trompoet Dusko @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.albert-mangelsdorff.de
personal data
SURNAME Hamer, Stu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamer, Stuart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician (trumpet, later piano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool