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Val Wilmer

November 2017

  • Paul Oliver in 2006

    Letter: Paul Oliver obituary

    Val Wilmer writes: Paul Oliver encouraged my early desire to document blues and jazz

July 2017

  • Willie Payne

    Other lives
    Willie Payne obituary

    Other lives: Actor who appeared in Dixon of Dock Green, The Professionals and EastEnders

May 2017

  • Saxa with other members of the Beat.

    Other lives
    Saxa obituary

    Other lives: Jamaican saxophonist known as Saxa who played with the English ska group the Beat

February 2017

  • Joe Baju

    Other lives
    Joe Baju obituary

    Other lives:

January 2017

  • Joe Watkins, right, and George Lewis, photographed at Ken Colyer’s jazz club by Terry Cryer in 1957

    Terry Cryer obituary

    Photographer admired for his pictures of jazz greats and for his skill in the darkroom

November 2016

  • Vic Evans (Victor Brown), left, and Chester Harriott during their heyday as the musical duo Harriott and Evans in the 1950s.

    Other lives
    Victor Brown obituary

    Other lives: Singer who achieved fame in the last days of British variety as half of the duo Harriott and Evans

August 2015

  • Russ Henderson, second right, and his Trinidad Steel Band.

    Russ Henderson obituary

    Trinidad-born jazz pianist and leading figure in the steelband movement in Britain who helped set up the Notting Hill carnival

February 2015

  • John 'Hoppy' Hopkins in 2000.

    John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins obituary

    Photographer, writer and activist who was a leading figure of 1960s British counterculture

July 2014

  • Joe Wilder in 2008.

    Letter: Joe Wilder was one of the first instrumentalists to break through the racial barrier in the session world

    Val Wilmer writes: Joe Wilder symbolised a great deal for young African-American musicians at the turn of the 1960s.

July 2013

  • Chester Harriott, right, and Vic Evans

    Chester Harriott obituary

    Pianist and popular entertainer who was part of the successful duo Harriott and Evans

June 2013

  • Bobby 'Blue' Bland sang falsetto originally

    Letter: Fried chicken and hot sauce with Bobby 'Blue' Bland

    Val Wilmer writes: In 1982 I met Bobby Bland in a cramped hotel room in Hammersmith

December 2012

  • The Dave Brubeck Quarter performing in 1966

    Letter: 'Promoters told Dave Brubeck to leave his African-American bassist, Gene Wright, behind, but he refused'

    Val Wilmer writes: Dave Brubeck played a useful role in the fight against US segregation in the 1950s and 60s

June 2012

  • Andy Hamiltoln

    Andy Hamilton obituary

    Jazz musician who left Jamaica to settle in Birmingham where he worked to improve community relations

November 2011

  • Reg Service

    Other lives
    Reg Service obituary

    Other lives: One of a small but significant group of black Britons who played jazz in the UK before the second world war

May 2010

  • Letter: George Webb obituary

    Val Wilmer writes: George Webb (obituary, 28 April) gave me my first and only gig as a roadie.

December 2009

  • Sonny Bradshaw

    Sonny Bradshaw obituary

    Trumpeter, broadcaster, and leader of Jamaica's Big Band

February 2009

  • Kofi Ghanaba

    Obituary: Influential Ghanaian drummer who emphasised the African origins of jazz

August 2008

  • Josie Woods

    Obituary: A pioneering black dancer and choreographer from east London

June 2008

  • Pete Chilver

    Obituary: Jazz musician who established the electric guitar in Britain

November 2007

  • Donald Ayler

    Obituary: 'Free' jazz trumpeter forever in his older brother's shadow
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