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A resident in the UK since 1954, Harry Beckett had an international reputation. In 1961, he played with Charles Mingus in the film All Night Long. In the late 1960s he worked and recorded within the band of bass player and composer Graham Collier. Since 1970, he has been leading groups of his own, recording for Philips, RCA and Ogun Records amongst other labels. He was a key figure of important groups in the British free jazz/improvised music scene, including Ian Carr's Nucleus, the Brotherhood of Breath and The Dedication Orchestra, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, London Improvisers Orchestra, John Surman's...

There are three artists with this name: 1) Beckett is a 70s progressive rock band from England. They recorded only one album called Beckett in 1974. The British heavy metal band Iron Maiden covered a song from this album called "A Rainbow's Gold". The song can be found as B-Side on their single Two Minutes to Midnight (1984). They also used Beckett's Life's Shadow as a huge inspiration for their song The Nomad on their 2000 album Brave New World. Terry Slesser, the singer in Beckett would come to form the ex-Free guitarist Paul Kossoff's band Back Street Crawler. 2)Beckett...

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human culture, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour. Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Strongly influenced by James Joyce, he is considered one of the last modernists. As an inspiration to many later writers, he is also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin...