In Conversation with Mike Lovatt Principal Trumpet of the John Wilson Orchestra
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2020
- Deanne Mayhew chats to Mike Lovatt ( principal trumpet of the JWO) reminiscing about 10 years of the John Wilson Orchestra at the Proms. With Special guests Ruth Rodgers Violin and Matt Ford star vocalist. Clips from the Tom and Jerry suite, and many more.
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this is a fabulous programme - such good fun. Thank you xx
From the first prom that the John Wilson orchestra performed at in 2009 when a DVD was made available I have always been disappointed that there have not been anymore DVD’s made for the other proms,fantastic as they have all been by the JWO.
I am fortunate that I have recorded them over the years and have had hours of pleasure listening to these.
I'm thrilled I found this video! Thank you Deanne for doing this. I am one of JWO's American fans. I've enjoyed listening to your experiences. I love that the JWO plays the music as it was written. Big Band music was my parents music but I listened to it all while growing up and all my life. I'll be 65 in a few months. When I hear Mike play a Harry James song it's just like listening to Harry James. The same when JWO plays a Benny Goodman song, the musician sounds just like Goodman, etc. The string section is awesome too and now I've gotten to meet Ruth who I always see in the orchestra. Matt has a gorgeous voice and you were meant to sing this music. Not many people can sing it well. You always look so relaxed when you perform and that you love what you're doing. Your American accent when you sing is awesome. You have a confident and polished stage presence. The Maida Vale Singers (hope I spelled correctly) are excellent! Thank you for all your hard work and excellence in every performance. I look forward to more of your performances. God bless you all!
A great joy to reminisce all of the wonderful JWO concerts. With thanks. Mervyn Cort
A really ejoyable insight into the JWO & its members & their interaction. Thank you.
From 2023 this was fantastic.
Thank you all - that was so enjoyable. I’ve met Mike before (virtually) in a Skype lesson in 2016 (Thanks Mike, I’m still feeding off that).
Now I feel like I know you all a little better. Brilliant music - lets hope we can get live again ASAP. Stay safe. One day I might get to a live concert - if I do I’ll seek you out. All the best. Ian Cookson (up North in sunny Lancashire).
Thanks Mike, Deanne, Ruth & Matt, that was brilliant - yiu have now made me late for work!
Wonderful to hear Mike give a mention to his section - Andy, Pat and Jim. All great players and great lads!! That's why its a brilliant and authentic sounding section led by Mike. Love it!! x
A salute to one of the greatest trumpet artists alive today. ML you ARE the best.
Great video and particularly lovely to hear some of the musicians speaking.
lovely playing as always Mike, great arrangement as well
Wonderful playing by a wonderful orchestra.
A great incite to a fabulous orchestra.
Just got round to watching this, I don't do Facebook so really glad it is on UA-cam. Just to correct Deanne, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue was from the 2012 Broadway Sound Prom, What an amazing Concert that was, we were so privileged to be in the RAH for it, you didn't mention the Balcony Scene with Sierra & Julian (despite the rights issues with that). and MAME, was just amazing as well. That attracted lovely comments by Donald Pippin on UA-cam as being the best ever performance of it. We actually only missed the first 2 Proms because they sold out, and we were on holiday when you did My Fair Lady, apart from those we went to every Prom once, and every Tour once, (unlike some JWO Fans who toured as well) We have met Mike a few times after Clare Teal Concerts, and Matt at B'ham Town Hall and Derngate. I think we just said Hello and Well Played to Ruth as she passed us outside one of the stage doors, but her smile just shows how much everyone is enjoying themselves, and that transmits across to the Audience. It has been really lovely to see you all chatting together, we hope you will do another at some point. But we just think how amazing it has been to see these Musicians, Singers and Soloists perform together and what joy they have brought to so many people over the years. It is such a shame that it has finished, perhaps after all this C19 is over you could all get together for a a Concert that could help us all to recover. Because of this Orchestra we have been to see so many of the Orchestra/Soloists doing their own thing and hopefully that will continue at some point.
Mike Lovatt = Legend
This video must have been hiding! I'm a huge JWO fan and loved this opportunity to eavesdrop on the members of the orchestra. I'm a desperate stage-door Johnny and that guy that always approaches players at the nearest watering hole for a bit of a chat. They're usually a bit shy at first, but then they realise I'm (proportionally, at lease) more fan than stalker, so this was a marvellous way to spend two hours. By trade I'm a radio producer and have always been in my element when making shows based around that golden age of Hollywood and I think it was TCM which helped springboard the revival that spurred the concept of the JWO with the re-issuing of a host MGM soundtracks (restored and digitised at the same time as the master reels) and people became re-acquainted, not just with the Broadway greats, but with the arrangers sucg as Johnny Green and Conrad Salinger. Up till then, Salinger's name was only familiar to the purists and the historians, and yet, he was, literally, instrumental in creating that unique MGM sound. Then no sooner had people's appetites been either renewed or fed anew, came the unbelievable news that MGM music library had been destroyed. Enter then the saviour, Saint John Wilson of Teen 'n' Weir, who then began the process of recreation, key to which, in the writing and the playing, was the ability to emulate that very precise sound and style. I always listen to the horns and strings and the trumpets which are the grace notes, as it were, of that MGM sound and the JWO is always on the money. Indeed, that is an enormous relief because hopefully those charts will be much better looked after than the hooligans who own MGM these days and this glorious music can live on to be played time and again. Thanks so much for this great zoom party!
Very nice of Mike to compliment the other trumpet players in his section but... at 43:51 when he states that they could all "sit in his seat" - I disagree. Mike has a unique talent for almost "channeling" the great trumpet player Uan Rasey when it comes to those "show tunes." Think "Carousel" from the 2010 Proms. It's chilling listening to Mike's playing on that piece. He's not only technically flawless on all those notes - and I take his word that anyone else in the trumpet section could deliver in terms of their skill - but Mike's playing also includes just the right amount of Uan Rasey "flair" and nice use of vibrato. That's what Uan Rasey always delivered on those big Hollywood musical soundtracks and that nobody else in town during those years (50s/60s especially) brought to the job.
When Matt sings he sounds just like an American, but when he talks I can tell he is British.
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