Later on he worked with Carl Barriteau, Oscar Rabin, Vic Lewis, the Kirchin Band, Jack Parnell, Roy Kenton, Vic Ash, Eric Delaney, Gracie Cole, David Ede, Tubby Hayes Big Band, Harry South, Ted Heath, Kenny Wheeler, Joe Harriott, Woody Herman's Anglo-American Herd, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis, Mike Gibbs, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Golson, Gary McFarland, Lalo Schifrin, James Last, Barbara Thompson, Peter Herbolzheimer and the Beatles– (hope I haven’t left anyone out!) He led his own successful sextet from the early 1970s until settling in Brighton. In their early years Ian, and both of his brothers, played in the band run by his mother, known as Mrs Wilf Hamer’s Band, in the Grafton Rooms, Liverpool. Ian Hamer ( trumpet/flugelhorn/composer/arranger) was born in Merseyside on 11th September, 1932, the son of Wilf Hamer, and brother of Stuart and George. In this 2001 interview by fellow trumpeter Ron Simmonds, Ian Hamer talks about Dizzy Gillespie, the Sussex Youth Jazz Orchestra and other British contemporary artists. He also played on the theme music for the popular 1970s Thames television show “The Sweeney”.

His session work in popular music included playing on the Beatles “Got to Get You Into My Life” and as lead trumpeter for 20 years on the BBC television Top of the Pops show studio orchestra conducted by Johnny Pearson.

In the late 1960s Hamer formed his own band, the Ian Hamer Sextet and, after moving to Brighton in 1987, founded the Sussex Youth Jazz Orchestra. Recognised as one of Britain’s finest trumpeters, as well as a composer and arranger, he earned acclaim from Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.

Hamer, together with Jimmy Deuchar, helped define the role of the trumpet in British bebop ensembles during the 1950s. So it’ll be interesting to see how this news is received by those who say, we should be putting our billions of dollars into the technology we know works today and getting off oil and gas ASAP, and then maybe saving life as we know it before we go for these amazing moonshots.Ian Hamer was a trumpeter at the heart of British jazz from the mid-1950s, known for his work as a sideman, particularly with saxophonist Tubby Hayes.īorn in Liverpool, Hamer was part of a musical family and played in his mother Mary Daly Hamer’s big band with his brothers Stuart and George, while his father, Wilf Hamer, was a successful bandleader.Īfter National Service in the RAF, Hamer joined the band led by clarinettist Carl Barriteau, but he first attracted attention as a soloist with the Vic Lewis Big Band and with Tubby Hayes’ Octet in 1956. In the meantime, there’s all this incredible breakthroughs that are happening with wind and solar and more will go online next five years than went online in the last 20. Bill, maybe you’re more optimistic than I am about how fast this takes. This is for our grandkids probably as a meaningful technology. We have 30 million years of seawater theoretically to feed these machines.īut what Bill was describing there, these 200 lasers aimed at what is essentially a peppercorn of hydrogen, a long way from there to where you can plug in your house to this stuff. We don’t have to drill or mine for fuel anymore because the fuel is seawater. And the appeal of it is you don’t have any nuclear waste, there’s no fallouts, there’s no accidents. So you guys, if this would work, if this is a harbinger, if this is really the beginning of something huge, it would change the world. So, it’s quite a little chin stroke that it’s very close to 80 years later to the day that this breakthrough occurred. And there’s, as far as I know in the reporting the last few days, no one’s mentioned that Enrico Fermiand his colleagues in University of Chicago did the first chain reaction, which led to all the nuclear power plants we have now, on December 2nd, 1942. So this is the first time, by all accounts, they’ve gotten more heat out than they put in.

So using lasers they zap this container, this whole rum, this gold thing with the deuterium in it and the lasers create x-rays and the x-rays create constructively interfering shock waves that get the thing to fuse without a giant magnetic bottle and without the gravity of a star. And then if it has two extra neutrons, that’s tritium. And the material would be hydrogen that has an extra neutron, which has this mount marvelous word, deuterium. But for all this time, for 80 years, people have trying to tried to get this idea where you could do it in a controlled fashion using a tiny amount of material. But there’s another amazing thing that happens in nature where you smash tiny, tiny parts of atoms together, protons, and they fuse and convert a tiny amount of their mass into energy, into heat, heat and light. Do you really, or not? So a nuclear weapon can be like we had to terminate World War II, we’re splitting very large atoms apart, gave off tremendous amount of energy.

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