Dickie Hawdon

Richard Hawdon was among the leading trumpeters to emerge through the fantastic age of Uk jazz, and remains most popular for his six-year tenure using the John Dankworth Orchestra. Created in Leeds on August 27, 1927, Hawdon 1st researched cello before shifting to trumpet in his mid-teens — after a stint using the Yorkshire Jazz Music group, he relocated to London in 1951, putting your signature on on with Chris Barber’s famed New Orleans Jazz Music group. Hawdon changed trumpeter Ken Colyer in the Christie Brothers Stompers in 1952, staying using the group for near 2 yrs. While his Louis Armstrong-inspired strategy earned favour among traditional jazz purists, he also created a more complicated, modern sensibility affected by Clifford Dark brown, shuttling seamlessly between your trad and contemporary idioms during the period of his profession. Hawdon 1st unleashed his bop-inspired ambitions in 1954 as an associate of Don Rendell’s intensifying jazz group, carrying on within an 18-month stint as trumpeter and arranger with Tubby Hayes. Hawdon became a member of his 1st big music group in middle-1956, getting on with Basil and Ivor Kirchin for approximately seven weeks — following that, he became a member of Dankworth in March 1957, getting into the longest & most satisfying cooperation of his profession. Furthermore to myriad recordings for the Parlophone label, Hawdon followed Dankworth on the 1959 Newport Jazz Celebration, where in fact the group performed with Louis Armstrong. In addition they teamed using the Duke Ellington Orchestra for the weeklong concert series at New Jersey’s St John’s Music Circus. Hawdon also composed and arranged several Dankworth staples, including “Great Kate” and “One for Janet,” music penned for his two daughters. During intervals of inactivity using the Dankworth group, Hawdon freelanced for bandleaders including Sid Phillips, Harry Yellow metal, Oscar Rabin, and Terry Lightfoot, and supported performers like Tony Bennett and Eartha Kitt throughout a stint with the home band in the London cabaret Chat of the city. As jazz dropped out of style in the wake of rock and roll & roll’s ascendance, Hawdon relocated to Yorkshire in 1967 to business lead the Batley Range Club’s house music group. A year later on, he was asked to build up a jazz program at the brand new Town of Leeds University of Music, and was called head from the school’s Light Music Division in 1972. Hawdon constructed a formidable system in both decades to check out, tapping his huge network of contacts over the jazz globe to generate myriad luminaries as visitor professors and loudspeakers. Hawdon also led his personal jazz quintet through the entire 1980s, and after retiring from academia in 1993 he flipped his focus on the bass, playing in some local organizations. He passed away June 24, 2009.