Jimmy Hastings
British musician (1938–2024)
James Brian Gordon Hastings (12 May 1938 – 18 March 2024) was a British musician associated with the Canterbury scene who played saxophones, flute and clarinet.[1]
Early life
Hastings was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He started playing the saxophone at aged 16 after having started playing piano. He auditioned unsuccessfully to play tenor saxophone with Leslie Thorpe's band at the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen and later with Humphrey Lyttelton. He then worked as a musician on ships.[1]
Career
On returning to England he played first tenor saxophone with the Ken Mackintosh band. After 2 years he joined the BBC Radio Orchestra. He played with the Bill Le Sage trio at The Bull's Head, Barnes. He left the BBC after four years to become a freelance musician.[1]
He played with his brother Pye Hastings in Caravan, with Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Bryan Ferry, Trapeze, Chris Squire, among others.[2] He played alto saxophone, clarinet and flute with Humphrey Lyttelton's eight-piece jazz band. With the other members of the Lyttelton band, he performed on the 2001 Radiohead album Amnesiac.[3][4] Hastings died on 18 March 2024, at the age of 85.[5][6]
Discography
- John Horler & Jimmy Hastings
- Point of Intersection (1986)
- Caravan
- Caravan (1968)
- If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (1970)
- In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971)
- Waterloo Lily (1972)
- For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night (1973)
- Caravan and the New Symphonia (1974)
- Cunning Stunts (1975)
- Blind Dog at St. Dunstans (1976)
- The Battle of Hastings (1995)
- Hatfield and the North
- The Rotters' Club (1975)
- National Health
- National Health (1977)
- Of Queues and Cures (1978)
- Soft Machine
- Third (1970)
- Fourth (1971)
- Todd Dillingham
- The Wilde Canterbury Dream (1992)
- Trapeze
- You Are the Music...We're Just the Band (1972)
- The Final Swing (1974)
References
- ^ a b c "RIP Jimmy Hastings 1938-2024". Way Out West. 2024. Archived from the original on 26 March 2024.
- ^ Biography at calyx-canterbury.fr the Canterbury website]
- ^ Reynolds, Simon (April 2001). "Radiohead recruit new member". Q. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
- ^ Amnesiac (booklet). Radiohead. Parlophone. 2001.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ "So sad to hear Jimmy Hastings has passed". Graham Russell on Facebook. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Addio a Jimmy Hastings, fiatista chiave del Canterbury sound". ondarock. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
External links
- Official website, at jimmyhastings.co.uk
- Calligraph Records
- Jimmy Hastings discography at Discogs
- Jimmy Hastings at IMDb
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Caravan
- Pye Hastings
- Geoffrey Richardson
- Jan Schelhaas
- Jim Leverton
- Mark Walker
- Richard Coughlan
- Richard Sinclair
- Dave Sinclair
- Steve Miller
- Derek Austin
- Stuart Evans
- John G. Perry
- Mike Wedgwood
- Dek Messecar
- Doug Boyle
- Simon Bentall
- Jimmy Hastings
- Caravan
- If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
- In the Land of Grey and Pink
- Waterloo Lily
- For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
- Cunning Stunts
- Blind Dog at St. Dunstans
- Better by Far
- The Album
- Back to Front
- Cool Water
- The Battle of Hastings
- The Unauthorized Breakfast Item
- Paradise Filter
- It's None of Your Business
- Caravan and the New Symphonia
- Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974
- BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
- Live: Canterbury Comes to London
- Songs for Oblivion Fishermen
- Ether Way: BBC Sessions 1975-77
- Surprise Supplies
- Green Bottles for Marjorie: The Lost BBC Sessions
- The Show of Our Lives
- The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales
- Travelling Man
- All Over You...Too
- The Show of Our Lives – Caravan at the BBC 1968–1975
- The World Is Yours – The Anthology 1968-1976
- Bruford
- Camel
- Delivery
- Earthworks
- Egg
- Gong
- Hatfield and the North
- In Cahoots
- Khan
- Matching Mole
- National Health
- Soft Heap
- Soft Machine
- Uriel
- The Wilde Flowers
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