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trumpeter. Following an illness in the late 1980s, he switched to the piano and concentrated on composition. The brother of musicians George and Ian Hamer, the three sons of legendary Grafton Rooms’ 1930s bandleader Wilf Hamer would all play later in the same band, then led by their mother. In 1957 he started playing regularly in Germany, first with Lars Werner and then later with

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. In 1966, he was in the Ronnie Ross Big Band which was recorded live for

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, of two line-ups led by

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Quintet, with

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, living for some time in Africa and performing in London with African musicians including Ghanaian (UK based) band Hi-Life International.

Discography

*1966: ''Old Friends & New Faces from Britain'' – Ronnie Ross Big Band *1967: ''Joe Harriott Swings High'' (Melodisc) *1968: ''Trumpet A'Gogo'' – Hamer and Phil Parker (trumpets), David Moses (bass guitar);

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; Graham Stansfield (organ); Mike Gibbs (Saga FID 2114) *1969: ''

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References

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