Harry Beckett

músico barbadense

Harold Winston Beckett (nacido el 30 de mayo de 1935[1]​ – muerto el 22 de julio de 2010) fue un trompetista y fliscorno británico de origen barbadense.

Harry Beckett
Información personal
Nacimiento 30 de mayo de 1935 Ver y modificar los datos en Wikidata
Bridgetown (Barbados) Ver y modificar los datos en Wikidata
Fallecimiento 22 de julio de 2010 Ver y modificar los datos en Wikidata (75 años)
Gran Londres (Reino Unido) Ver y modificar los datos en Wikidata
Causa de muerte Accidente cerebrovascular Ver y modificar los datos en Wikidata
Nacionalidad Británica
Información profesional
Ocupación Músico
Años activo 1961–2010
Género Jazz Ver y modificar los datos en Wikidata
Instrumentos Trompeta, fliscorno

Biografía

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Nació en Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados y aprendió a tocar música en una banda del Ejército de Salvación.[2]​ Residente en el Reino Unido desde 1954, tenía reputación internacional. Jugó con Charles Mingus en la película de 1962 All Night Long.[3][4]​ En la década de 1960, trabajó y grabó dentro de la banda del bajista y compositor Graham Collier.[3][5]​ A partir de 1970, Beckett dirigió sus propios grupos, grabando para Philips, RCA y Ogun Records, entre otros.

Fue una figura clave en grupos importantes de la escena británica de free jazz, incluidos Ian Carr, Brotherhood of Breath y The Dedication Orchestra, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, John Surman, Django Bates, el quinteto de Ronnie Scott, Kathy Stobart, Charlie Watts, y el octeto de Stan Tracey; El Ninesense de Elton Dean.[6]​ También grabó con Keef Hartley, Jah Wobble, David Sylvian y David Murray. Realizó una gira por el extranjero con Johnny Dyani, Chris McGregor, Keith Tippett, John Tchicai, Joachim Kühn, Zila de Dudu Pukwana, Bands de George Gruntz, el quinteto belga The Wrong Object, New Jungle Band de Pierre Dørge y Robert de Annie Whitehead.

Su álbum de dub, "The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett", fue producido por el famoso productor británico Adrian Sherwood y lanzado en On-U Sound a finales de 2008.

En 1972, ganó el premio del semanario Melody Maker al "Mejor trompetista de Gran Bretaña". También fue miembro de la Orquesta Nacional de Jazz entre 1997 y 2000.[3]

Beckett murió el 22 de julio de 2010 tras un derrame cerebral.[7]

Discografía

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Artista o grupo Título Sello discográfico Fecha de grabación Año de lanzamiento
Charles Mingus Session following filming All Night Long Private Acetate 01/01/61 1962
West African Rhythm Brothers Various singles Melodisc 01/01/63 1963
Nigerian Union Rhythm Group Melodisc 01/01/66 1966
Ambrose Campbell High Life Today Columbia Lansdowne 01/01/66 1966
The Graham Collier Septet Deep Dark Blue Centre Deram 24/01/67 1967
Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers No.1 In Your Heart Parlophone 01/07/67 1967
Herbie Goins & The Night-Timers Soultime! (Compilation) See For Miles 1992
John Surman, Alan Skidmore, Tony Oxley Jazz In Britain '68–'69 Decca Eclipse 01/03/69 1972
Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake Immediate 01/01/68 1968
Graham Collier Workpoints Cuneiform 16/03/68 2005
John Surman John Surman (Anglo-Sax in the US) Deram 14/08/68 1969
The New Jazz Orchestra Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe Verve 01/09/68 1969
Ray Russell Quartet Dragon Hill CBS Realm 01/01/69 1969
Michelin Commercial Theme 01/01/69 1969
Keef Hartley Band The Battle of North West Six Deram 01/01/69 1969
Varios Wowie Zowie! The World of Progressive Music (includes "Not Foolish, Not Wise" from The Battle Of North West Six) Decca 01/01/69 1969
Graham Collier Sextet Down Another Road Fontana 21/03/69 1969
Joe Harriott Journey (Extra track: "In a Sentimental Mood" with Stan Tracey Big Band) Moonlight Tunes 18/04/69 2011
Jack Bruce Songs for a Tailor Polydor 20/05/69 1969
Manfred Mann Chapter Three Manfred Mann Chapter Three Vertigo 01/06/69 1969
Keef Hartley Band Halfbreed Deram 01/06/69 1969
Alexis Korner Both Sides Metronome (Germany) 23/09/69 1970
Galliard New Dawn Deram 13/12/69 1970
Mike Osborne Outback Turtle 01/01/70 1970
Bob Downes Open Music Electric City Vertigo 01/01/70 1970
Ray Russell's Rock Workshop Rock Workshop CBS 01/01/70 1970
Manfred Mann Chapter Three Volume Two Vertigo 01/01/70 1970
John Surman How Many Clouds Can You See? Deram 01/03/70 1970
Ray Russell's Rock Workshop The Very Last Time CBS 04/04/70 1971
C.C.S. C.C.S. (First) RAK 01/05/70 1970
Neil Ardley's New Jazz Orchestra Camden '70 Dusk Fire 26/05/70 2008
Graham Collier Music Songs For My Father Fontana 01/06/70 1970
Various, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice Jesus Christ Superstar MCA 01/06/70 1970
Memphis Slim Blue Memphis Barclay 01/06/70 1970
Colosseum Daughter of Time Vertigo 01/07/70 1970
Harry Beckett Flare Up Philips 15/07/70 1970
Ray Russell Rites And Rituals CBS 01/08/70 1971
Keef Hartley Band Not Foolish Not Wise Mooncrest Records 01/08/70 1999
The Trio Conflagration Dawn 01/11/70 1971
Graham Collier Music The Alternate Mosaics BGO 12/12/70 2008
Graham Collier Music Featuring Harry Beckett Mosaics Philips 12/12/70 1971
Ian Carr with Nucleus Solar Plexus Vertigo 14/12/70 1971
Michael Gibbs Tanglewood '63 Deram 23/12/70 1971
Harry Beckett Warm Smiles RCA Victor/Vocalion 01/01/71 1971
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath Brotherhood RCA Neon 01/01/71 1971
Miller Anderson Bright City Deram 01/01/71 1971
Faces Long Player Warner Brothers 01/01/71 1971
Storyteller More Pages Transatlantic 01/01/71 1971
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath RCA Neon 09/01/71 1971
Neil Ardley & The New Jazz Orchestra On the Radio: BBC Sessions 1971 Dusk Fire 25/01/71 2017
John Surman/John Warren Tales of the Algonquin Deram 01/04/71 1971
Ray Russell Live at the I.C.A. RCA Victor 11/06/71 1971
The Keef Hartley Band Little Big Band Deram 13/06/71 1971
Oliver Nelson Swiss Suite Flying Dutchman 16/06/71 1972
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath Bremen to Bridgwater Cuneiform 20/06/71 2004
Neil Ardley A Symphony of Amaranths Regal Zonophone 23/06/71 1971
Mike Westbrook Orchestra Metropolis RCA Neon 03/08/71 1971
The Running Man The Running Man RCA Neon 15/10/71 1972
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath Eclipse at Dawn Cuneiform 04/11/71 2008
Alexis Korner Bootleg Him! RAK 01/05/70 1972
Harry Beckett's S & R Powerhouse Sections Themes for Fega RCA Victor/Vocalion 04/02/72 1972
Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint Lo & Behold DJM 01/03/72 1972
Barry Guy/London Jazz Composers' Orchestra Ode Incus 22/04/72 1972
The Mike Gibbs Band Just Ahead Polydor 31/05/72 1972
Various (Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath) International New Jazz Meeting Burg Altena 1972–1973 B. Free 24/06/72 2016
Alan Cohen Band Duke Ellington's Black Brown & Beige Argo 19/10/72 1973
London Jazz Composers Orchestra Ode Auditorium 22/10/72 2005
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath Live at Willisau Ogun 27/01/73 1974
C.C.S. The Best Band in the Land RAK 01/01/73 1973
Scaffold Fresh Liver Island 01/01/73 1973
Jaki Whitren Raw but Tender Epic 01/01/73 1973
Ray Russell Secret Asylum Black Lion 01/01/73 1973
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath Travelling Somewhere Cuneiform 19/01/73 2001
Alexis Korner Alexis Korner Polydor (Germany) 01/01/73 1974
Giorgio Gaslini L'Integrale - Antologia Cronologica - CD N°7 (1973), CD N°8 (1973–74) Soul Note 13/10/73 2008
Giorgio Gaslini & Jean-Luc Ponty Fabbrica Occupata Produttori Associati 27/10/73 1974
Sharon Forrester Sharon Ashanti 01/01/74 1974
Harry Beckett Joy Unlimited Cadillac 12/03/74 1975
Graham Collier Music Darius Mosaic 13/03/74 1974
Harry Beckett Still Happy My Only Desire 11/08/74 2016
Graham Collier with Graham Collier Music Jazz Illustrations Cambridge University Press 01/01/75 1975
Graham Collier with Graham Collier Music Jazz Lecture Concert Cambridge University Press 01/01/75 1975
Bob Downes Open Music Hells Angels Openian 01/01/75 1975
Various (including Graham Collier Music) Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers Reel Recordings 01/01/75 2012
Eddy Grant Eddy Grant Torpedo 01/01/75 1975
Graham Collier Music Midnight Blue Mosaic 17/02/75 1975
John Warren Bigband Live (Sparkasse Bremen, Sparkasse in Concert II / 76) Sparkasse Bremen 21/06/75 1976
Harry Beckett Memories of Bacares Ogun 25/11/75 1975
Elton Dean's Ninesense Oh! For The Edge Ogun 22/03/76 1976
Graham Collier Music New Conditions Mosaic 02/06/76 1976
Graham Collier Music Symphony of Scorpions Mosaic 07/11/76 1977
Stan Tracey Octet The Bracknell Connection Steam 29/11/76 1976
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath Procession Ogun 10/05/77 1978
Harry Beckett's Joy Unlimited Got It Made Ogun 13/07/77 1977
Elton Dean's Ninesense Happy Daze Ogun 26/07/77 1977
Stan Tracey Octet The Early Works ReSteamed 17/09/77 2008
The Jive Bureaux Stick It Gull 01/01/78 1978
Alan Price England My England Jet 01/01/78 1978
Stan Tracey Octet Salisbury Suite Steam 25/02/78 1978
Graham Collier Music The Day of the Dead Mosaic 01/03/78 1978
Elton Dean's Ninesense Live at the BBC Hux 17/03/78 2003
Kathy Stobart Arbeia Spotlite 28/03/78 1978
Elton Dean's Ninesense The 100 Club Concert 1979 Reel Recordings 05/03/79 2012
Barry Guy/London Jazz Composers Orchestra Stringer FMP 01/03/80 1983
Dudu Pukwana Sounds Zila Jika 16/01/81 1981
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath Yes Please - Angoulème 1981 In And Out 01/06/81 1981
Elton Dean's Ninesense Ninesense Suite Jazzwerkstatt 20/06/81 2011
Weekend The View from Her Room (7" single) Rough Trade 01/01/82 1982
Beckett/Miller/Moholo Jazzwerkstatt Peitz No. 45 Jazzwerkstatt 24/04/82 2011
Robert Wyatt Nothing Can Stop Us Rough Trade 01/06/82 1982
Weekend La Varieté Rough Trade 01/07/82 1982
Trevor Bastow Sax Trax JW Music Library 01/01/83 1983
David Panton's One Music Orchestra BBC Radio Three Jazz in Britain broadcast Private recording 27/06/93 1983
Dudu Pukwana And Zila Life In Bracknell & Willisau Jika 03/07/83 1983
Stan Tracey Stan Tracey Now Steam 09/07/83 1983
Albert Van Dam The Sentimental Touch RCA 01/01/84 1984
Working Week Storm of Light (7" & 12" singles) Virgin/Paladin 01/05/84 1984
David Panton Quintet Live at Nottingham Jazz Panton Music 01/11/84 1984
David Panton & Associates Standard Deviation Panton Music 01/11/84 2016
Harry Beckett Pictures of You Virgin 01/01/85 1985
Jah Wobble & Ollie Marland Neon Moon Island 01/01/85 1985
Working Week Working Nights Virgin 01/01/85 1985
Working Week Featuring Jalal of the Last Poets & Julie Tippetts Stella Marina (12" single) Virgin 01/01/85 1985
Working Week Pay Check (US Compilation) Virgin America 1984 - 1985 1988
Elton Dean Quintet The Bologna Tapes Ogun 18/04/85 1985
Johnny Dyani Quartet Angolian Cry Steeplechase 23/07/85 1985
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra Even the Moon Is Dancing Steeplechase 30/07/85 1985
Lysis Superimpositions - IMProvised comPOSITIONS Soma 01/01/86 1986
David Defries The Secret City MMC 01/01/86 1986
Jah Wobble & Ollie Marland Tradewinds Lago 01/01/86 1986
David Sylvian Gone to Earth Virgin 01/01/86 1986
Dudu Pukwana Zila 86 Jika 01/01/86 1986
Chris McGregor and the South African Exiles Thunderbolt PAM 01/01/86 1986
The Charlie Watts Orchestra Live at Fulham Town Hall CBS 23/03/86 1986
Detail Plus – Ness Ness Impetus 01/07/86 1986
Elton Dean Quintet Welcomet Live in Brazil 1986 Impetus (Vinyl) & Ogun (CD) 01/01/87 1987
Pulse! Stormy Weather Spotlite 12/07/86 1987
Harry Beckett/Johnny Dyani/Chris McGregor/Marilyn Mazur Grandmothers Teaching ITM 01/01/87 1988
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath Country Cooking Virgin/Great Winds 01/01/87 1988
Tom Mega Backyards of Pleasure ITM 01/01/87 1988
Jazz Warriors Out of Many, One People Antilles 13/03/87 1987
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra Johnny Lives Steeplechase 15/04/87 1987
Harry Beckett Les Jardins du Casino West Wind 01/05/87 1993
Harry Beckett – Courtney Pine Live, Vol. 2 West Wind 20/05/87 1987
Harry Beckett Bremen Concert West Wind 23/05/87 1988
John Stevens' Fast Colour Suite for Johnny Dyani Loose Torque 05/08/88 2004
U3 Klang Jazz Goes Underground West Wind 28/08/88 1988
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra Different Places - Different Bananas Olufsen 08/01/88 1989
Varios Bandes Originales Du Journal De Spirou Nato 01/01/89 1989
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Archie Shepp En Concert A Banlieues Bleues 52e Rue Est 18/03/89 1989
Anglo Italian Quartet Put It Right Mr. Smoothie Spalsc(h) 12/02/90 1991
Harry Beckett & Pierre Dørge Echoes Of... Olufsen 01/05/90 1990
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra Live in Chicago Olufsen 06/07/90 1991
Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart Rising Above Bedlam Oval 01/01/91 1991
Vic Reeves I Will Cure You Island 01/01/91 1991
Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra Featuring David Murray The Jazzpar Prize Enja 16/03/91 1992
David Murray & Pierre Dorges New Jungle Orchestra (Take 1 of track from The Jazzpar Prize) Jazzpar – All Winners 1990 – 2004 Jazzkontakten 16/03/91 2005
Harry Beckett's Flugelhorn 4 + 3 All Four One Spotlite 25/03/91 1991
Joachim Kuhn Sometime Ago Newedition 09/04/91 2005
Harry Beckett Passion and Possession ITM 23/04/91 1991
Beckett – Levallet – Marsh Images of Clarity Evidence 01/01/92 1992
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra Karawane Olufsen 01/01/92 1992
Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra (one track from Karawane) All That Jazz from Denmark 1993 DanDisc 01/01/92 1993
The Dedication Orchestra Spirits Rejoice Ogun 02/01/92 1992
Various Moon of Roses ITM 26/09/93 1995
Annie Whitehead and Rude (one track) Takin' Off – Jazz from Britain in the Nineties Jazz on CD Late 1993 1994
Rude This Is ... Jazzprint 01/01/94 1994
Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart Take Me to God Island 01/01/94 1994
Annie Whitehead's Rude (one track) One Night Stands Blow the Fuse 01/01/94
The Dedication Orchestra Ixesha (Time) Ogun 03/01/94 1994
2 Badcard Hustling Ability On-U Sound 01/01/95 1995
Anglo Italian Quartet Twice Upon a Time Splasc(h) 07/05/95 1995
Harry Beckett Compared 2 What? Basic 01/01/95 1996
Gail Thompson Jazz Africa Enja 01/01/96 1996
Bill Wells Octet Live '96 CDR 01/07/96
Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart The Celtic Poets 30 Hz 01/01/97 1997
Jah Wobble Umbra Sumus 30 Hz 01/01/97 1998
The Pendelbury Dream Team Fine and Mellow Pendlebury 20/04/97 1997
Jah Wobble Presents Zi Lan Liao The Five Tone Dragon 30 Hz 01/01/98 1998
Orchestre National De Jazz/Didier Levallet ONJ Express Evidence 27/03/98 1998
Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart Full Moon Over the Shopping Mall 30 Hz 01/01/99 1999
Harry Beckett Tribute to Charles Mingus Westway 16/01/99

The Premises Studio, Hackney, London E2

Harry Beckett Before and After Spotlite 25/02/99 2001
Orchestre National De Jazz/Didier Levallet Sequences Evidence 11/02/99 1999
Various Soupsongs Live – The Music of Robert Wyatt Jazzprint 10/10/99 2002
Orchestre National De Jazz/Didier Levallet Deep Feelings Evidence 01/03/00 2000
Ramon Lopez Duets 2 Rahsaan Roland Kirk Leo Records 17/07/00
London Improvisers Orchestra The Hearing Continues… Emanem 04/09/00 2001
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath The Memorial Concert ITM 01/01/01 2001
Temple of Sound & Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali People's Colony No I Real World 01/01/01 2001
London Improvisers Orchestra Freedom of the City 2001 – Large Groups Emanem 06/05/01 2002
Jah Wobble Fly 30 Hz 01/01/02 2002
London Improvisers Orchestra Freedom of the City 2002 Emanem 05/05/02 2003
Paul Hazel The Unexpected Flashlight 28/05/02 2002
Jah Wobble and Deep Space Five Five Beat 30 Hz 01/01/03 2003
Carol Grimes Mother Irregular 01/01/03 2003
Adrian Sherwood Never Trust a Hippy Real World 24/02/03 2003
London Improvisers Orchestra London Responses, Reproduction & Reality: Freedom of the City 2003–4 Emanem 04/05/03 2005
London Improvisers Orchestra Improvisations for George Riste psi 06/07/03 2008
Jürgen Wuchner Group Feat. Harry Beckett Jürgen Wuchner Group Feat. Harry Beckett West Wind 15/12/03 2004
Jah Wobble Elevator Music Volume 1A 30 Hz 01/01/04 2004
On-U Sound On-U Sound Live on Warsaw 2004 Not on Label 24/01/04 2004
Jah Wobble Mu Trojan 01/01/05 2005
Junior Delgado The Ark of the Covenant (12") Incredible Music 01/06/05 2005
The Wrong Object & Guests Live 2005 CDR 27/10/05 2005
The Wrong Object Meets Harry Beckett Another Time in Belgium CDR 27/10/05 2005
Graham Collier Directing 14 Jackson Pollocks Jazz Continuum 01/11/04 2009
George Haslam, Richard Leigh Harris, Stefano Pastor, Harry Beckett, Steve Kershaw Holywell Session: Live In Oxford Slam Productions 17/09/06 2007
The Wrong Object Platform One Jazzprint 01/01/07 2007
London Improvisers Orchestra/Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Separately & Together Emanem 06/05/07 2008
Harry Beckett The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett On-U Sound 01/01/08 2008
Jah Wobble Car Ad Music 30 Hz 01/01/09 2009
Duduvudu The Gospel According to Dudu Pukwana Edgetone 01/01/10 2014
Harry Beckett Maxine (Compilation 1987–1995) ITM 1987 – 1995 2011

Referencias

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  1. According to his wife, Beckett was 86 (sic) when he died, see the obituary by Steve Voce, The Independent, 24 August 2010, where his date of birth is given as 30 May 1923.
  2. Voce, Steve (24 August 2010), "Harry Beckett: Highly respected trumpeter who worked with Mingus, Scott, Dankworth and Tracey", The Independent.
  3. a b c Fordham, John (26 de julio de 2010). «Jazz trumpeter and composer, his genial, unmistakable sound became legendary». The Guardian. Consultado el 12 de junio de 2011. 
  4. "All Night Long (1962)", Library of Congress.
  5. Phillips, Matt (10 July 2015), "Harry Beckett 1935–2010", Sounds of Surprise.
  6. Fordham, John (9 de junio de 2011). «Elton Dean's Ninesense: Ninesense Suite/Natal – review». The Guardian. Consultado el 12 de junio de 2011. 
  7. «Jazz breaking news: Trumpeter Harry Beckett Dies». Jazzwise magazine. 23 de julio de 2010. Archivado desde el original el 26 de julio de 2010. Consultado el 23 de julio de 2010. 

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