Henry Lowther - Keef Hartley

<p>Henry Lowther in conversation with David Eastaugh</p> <p>Lowther's first musical experience was on cornet in a <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation_Army'>Salvation Army</a> band. He studied violin briefly at the <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Music'>Royal Academy of Music </a> but returned to trumpet by 1960, though he sometimes played violin professionally. In the 1960s, he worked with <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Westbrook'>Mike Westbrook</a> (beginning in 1963 and continuing into the 1980s), <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_Asylum'>Manfred Mann</a>, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dankworth'>John Dankworth</a> (1967–77), <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Collier'>Graham Collier</a>(1967), <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mayall'>John Mayall</a> (1968), <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warren_(Canadian_musician)'>John Warren</a> (1968 and subsequently), <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Ardley'>Neil Ardley</a> (1968), and <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Downes'>Bob Downes</a> (1969).</p> <p>Lowther appeared for some time with the <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keef_Hartley'>Keef Hartley</a> Band, playing with him at <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock'>Woodstock</a>, the music festival held in New York in August 1969.</p>