Man this is sad...just had an e/mail from a friend informing me that Harry Beckett has passed away.
Crazy as I was just thinking about him last night while listening to Asian Dub Foundation's 'Conscious Party' where the live mix was by his son Louis.
Damn!
Harry was a true gentleman and one of the nicest people that I have ever met and needless to say a mighty fine trumpeter.
I was lucky enough to know him quite well when I lived in London and Amsterdam seeing him perform all over the place with the likes of Brotherhood of Breath, Jah Wobble and all the usual suspects in the jazz scene back then.
Damn, damn, damn!
From the On-U Sound album 'The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett' produced by Adrian Sherwood
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