Jackie Armstrong

Trombonist Jackie Armstrong was a linchpin of Ted Heath’s renowned big music group, judged by many the best possible & most adventurous United kingdom orchestra from the postwar period. Delivered George Armstrong in Consett, State Durham, on Apr 13, 1920, he first found the trombone at age group ten, and within 2 yrs was an associate of the neighborhood Easington Colliery Music group. He quit college at 14, and after a short career being a carpenter was asked in 1935 to become listed on Archie’s Juvenile Music group, a teenager big band well-known for the U.K. range circuit. The outbreak of Globe Battle II spelled the group’s demise, nevertheless, and Armstrong agreed upon on with music hall comedian Alec Halls, also experiencing a short stint playing Dixieland before getting his contact to duty, offering as a drivers with the United kingdom Royal Artillery. His possibilities to enjoy music were therefore few in number it got him many years to regain his pre-war aptitude. Armstrong finally resurfaced in 1947 behind bandleader Lou Preager. Throughout a efficiency at London’s Hammersmith Palais, he found the interest of Heath, who was simply searching for a trombonist to displace the exiting Laddy Busby. Armstrong became a member of fellow trombonists Harry Roche, Jack port Bentley, and Jimmy Coombes in Heath’s formidable trombone section, but quickly surfaced as a highlighted soloist, supposing the limelight with breathtaking shows on recordings including “The Contact of Your Lip area” and “Advanced Female.” He also offered as Heath’s comedic foil, but pined for any quiet domestic existence and resigned his post in 1953, becoming a member of Woolf Phillips & the Skyrockets throughout their residency in the London Palladium. Armstrong spent the middle-’50s with Cyril Stapleton and his BBC Display Band, accompanied by a stint with fellow Heath alum Jack port Parnell in the ATV Orchestra. When the Heath music group re-formed under Don Lusher, Armstrong came back to the collapse, remaining using the group until its farewell overall performance on Dec 4, 2000. He passed away July 16, 2005, at age 85.