That's from "Child's Song". I think I first came across Henry Lowther through a solo on a Mike Westbrook album - then later in the London Jazz Composer's Orchestra. He always seemed to be offered the "main" lyrical solo of a particular performance. Henry has a standards-playing quartet with Jim Mullen, Dave Green and Stu Butterfield that gets to play about once a year in my local. He always comes across as a deceptively unassuming player in that context - unassuming but always polished. I'd conclude he has two approaches - the latter, for when he just wants to enjoy himself and be enjoyed for the classical elegance, and a more searching, exploratory approach for the improv stuff. Somewhere in the middle is Child's Song, and Still Waters, a sort-of co-operative band he started about 15 years ago, with Julian Arguelles (Mark Lockheart now, I think), Pete Saberton, Dave Green and Paul Clarvis, which covers that time/no changes '67-era Miles, and does it with a lot of those "English" touches I was, er, mentioning before. Find him in coversation with a punter at the bar, and you can get dragged into any number of hilarious anecdotes about the 60s.
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