Claude Deppa + 8 – inc. Tony Kofi. Fayyaz Virji, Sheik Thomson, Brian Abrahams and more.
Harry's Band – Tony Marsh, Alistair Gavin, Fred Baker & Henry Lowther
Roland Ramanan Tentet with Robert Jarvis, Mark Browne, Adrian Northover, Ricardo Tejero, Marcio Mattos, Dominic Lash, Tony Marsh, Ian Smith and Javier Carmona.
Caroline Kraabel – 2min. song solo
Ray Russell / Charles Hayward Duo
Maggie Nicols / Veryan Weston Duo
Dave Amis
Bryon Wallen – Song dedicated to Harry.
Francine Luce / John Edwards / Caroline Kraabel Trio
Lol Coxhill, Adrian Sherwood (tbc), Steve Beresford (electronics), Orphy Robinson (vibraphone) and guests
Alexander Hawkins - Nick Stevens.
John Edwards, Pat Thomas, Charles Hayward
Roger Dean (piano solo)
Roberto Ottaviano (saxophone)
Apologies from Mike Westbrook, Keith & Julie Tippetts, Evan Parker, Robert Wyatt, Serge Lazarevitch, Eric Barret and Graham Collier.
HARRY BECKETT
He was a key figure of important groups in the British free jazz/improvised music scene, including Ian Carr's Nucleus, the Brotherhood of Breath and The Dedication Orchestra, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, London Improvisers Orchestra, John Surman's Octet, Django Bates, Ronnie Scott's Quintet, Kathy Stobart, Charlie Watts, Stan Tracey's Big Band and Octet; Elton Dean's Ninesense. He has also recorded with Keef Hartley, Jah Wobble, David Sylvian and worked with David Murray. He toured abroad with Johnny Dyani, Chris McGregor, Keith Tippett, John Tchicai, Joachim Kühn, Dudu Pukwana's Zila, George Gruntz's Bands, Belgian quintet The Wrong Object, Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Band and Annie Whitehead's Robert Wyatt project, Soupsongs, which also featured Phil Manzanera and Julie Tippetts, amongst other jazz and rock luminaries.
His most recent, dub-oriented album, The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett, was produced by famed British producer Adrian Sherwood and released on On-U Sound in late 2008.
In 1972, Beckett won the Melody Maker jazz Poll as 'Top Trumpeter in Britain'. He was a member of the Orchestre National de Jazz between 1997 and 2000.
