{{Short description|Scottish jazz trumpeter and arranger (1930–1993)}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2010}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
'''James Deuchar''' (26 June 1930<ref name="LarkinJazz">{{cite book|title=The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=120}}</ref> – 9 September 1993) was a Scottish jazz trumpeter and big band arranger, born in Dundee, Scotland.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> He found fame as a performer and arranger in the 1950s and 1960s. Deuchar was taught trumpet by John Lynch, who learned bugle playing as a boy soldier in the First World War, and who later was Director of Brass Music for Dundee.
==Career== Deuchar was born in Dundee, Scotland, to a musical family, and started playing trumpet at twelve. In 1945 his family moved to New Malden, Surrey, with Deuchar attending Tiffin School in Kingston upon Thames and playing in a local Boys' Band. He was posted at RAF Uxbridge in West London during his National Service, sitting in at the Club Eleven and joining John Dankworth's band upon his demobilization in May 1950. Deuchar left Dankworth in August 1951, and had spells of various length with bandleaders, including Jack Parnell between April 1952 and January 1953, then with Ronnie Scott until August 1954. From 1954 to 1957 he worked with a number of commercial bands, such as the Oscar Rabin Band and Cyril Stapleton's BBC Show Band, and played intermittently with musicians including Ronnie Scott, Tony Crombie and Tommy Whittle. In 1956 he toured Europe with Lionel Hampton.<ref name="ChiltonWhosWho">{{cite book |last1=Chilton |first1=John |author1-link=John Chilton |title=Who's Who of British Jazz |date=2004 |publisher=Continuum |location=London/New York |isbn=0-8264-7234-6 |pages=107–108 |edition=2nd}}</ref>
From April 1957 to late 1959 he worked with Kurt Edelhagen's orchestra in Germany, then played with Ronnie Scott's quintet from 1960 to 1962 upon his return to Britain.<ref name="ChiltonWhosWho"/> From 1962 until 1966 he worked regularly with Tubby Hayes.<ref name="EssentialComp">{{cite book |last1=Carr |first1=Ian |last2=Fairweather |first2=Digby |last3=Priestley |first3=Brian |author1-link=Ian Carr |author2-link=Digby Fairweather |author3-link=Brian Priestley |title=Jazz: The Essential Companion |date=1988 |publisher=Prentice Hall Press |location=New York |isbn=0-13-509274-4 |page=135}}</ref> As a highly gifted player and a leading exponent of the "modern" style, he was in some demand and achieved success as a touring player in Europe and the United States. He also "sat in" with leading American players at Ronnie Scott's club as musical exchanges were liberalised at the start of the 1960s.
Deuchar played with the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band on many occasions in 1963–1971, and moved back to Germany in 1965.<ref name="ChiltonWhosWho"/> He worked as a soloist and staff arranger with the Edelhagen orchestra from 1966,<ref name="EssentialComp"/> and also did extensive arranging and composing work.<ref name="ChiltonWhosWho"/> In 1971 Deuchar moved to Ealing, London, working freelance, and then to Dundee in the mid-1970s. While mainly active as an arranger, he resumed playing in 1974 and appeared in a number of settings,<ref name="ChiltonWhosWho"/> including the BBC Big Band in London and the BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra in Glasgow.
He died in Dundee in 1993, aged 63.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/nostalgia/2028772/moonlight-on-the-dighty-jimmy-deuchar-was-dundees-jazz-trumpet-hero/|title=Moonlight on the Dighty: Jimmy Deuchar was Dundee's jazz trumpet hero|first=Graeme|last=Strachan|website=Thecourier.co.uk|date=8 March 2021 |access-date=26 July 2021}}</ref>
==Discography== ===As leader=== * ''Jimmy Deuchar'' (Discovery, 1953)<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> * ''Pal Jimmy!'' (Tempo 1957, re released on Jasmine, 2002) * ''Pub Crawling with Jimmy Deuchar'' (Contemporary, 1957)<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> * ''Music in the Making'' (Jasmine, 2001) * ''Opus de Funk'' (Jasmine, 2001) * ''The Anglo/American/Scottish Connection'' (Hep, 2004)<ref name="AM discog">{{cite web|title=Jimmy Deuchar {{!}} Album Discography {{!}} AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-deuchar-mn0000352848/discography|website=AllMusic|access-date=27 January 2017}}</ref>
===As guest=== '''With Victor Feldman''' * ''Suite Sixteen'' (Contemporary, 1955 [1958]) '''With Tubby Hayes''' * 1955 ''Swinging Giant, Vol. 1'' * 1962 ''Late Spot at Scott's'' * 1963 ''A Tribute: Tubbs'' * 1966 ''Night and Day'' * 2005 ''England's Late Jazz Great'' * 2005 ''Live in London, Vol. 2'' * 2007 ''The Little Giant'' * 2011 ''Dancing in the Dark''
'''With Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band''' * ''Jazz Is Universal'' (Atlantic, 1962) * ''Handle with Care'' (Atlantic, 1963) * ''Now Hear Our Meanin''' (Columbia, 1963 [1965]) * ''Swing, Waltz, Swing'' (Philips, 1966) * ''Sax No End'' (SABA, 1967) * ''Out of the Folk Bag'' (Columbia, 1967) * ''17 Men and Their Music'' (Campi, 1967) * ''All Smiles'' (MPS, 1968) * ''Faces'' (MPS, 1969) * ''Latin Kaleidoscope'' (MPS, 1969) * ''Fellini 712'' (MPS, 1969) * ''Let's Face the Music and Dance'' (1969) * ''Big Band Sound of Kenny Clarke & Francy Boland'' (1973)
'''With others''' * 1961 ''Live at Ronnie Scott's'', Zoot Sims * 1965 ''Now Hear Our Meanin' '', Kenny Clarke * 1966 ''Sound Venture'', Georgie Fame/Harry South Big Band * 1967 ''Fire, Heat, Soul and Guts'', Kenny Clarke * 1968 ''Trip to the Mars'', Orchester Roland Kovac * 1969 ''Ray Warleigh's First Album'', Ray Warleigh * 1970 ''Midnight Mood'', Mark Murphy * 1986 ''Live at Fulham Town Hall'', Charlie Watts * 1989 ''Roarin' '', Jack Sharpe * 2004 ''Swing Revisited'', Johnny Keating * 2007 ''An Ace Face'', Allen Eager<ref name="AM credits">{{cite web|title=Jimmy Deuchar {{!}} Credits {{!}} AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-deuchar-mn0000352848/credits|website=AllMusic|access-date=27 January 2017}}</ref>
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