Hugh Armigel Wade
(1 July 1907 - 10 April 1949) was an English jazz musician.
Hugh Armigel Wade
(1 July 1907 - 10 April 1949) was an English jazz musician.
Hugh Armigel Wade was born in Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, on 1 July
1907, the third son of Richard Wade, a solicitor, and Alice Wade. The Wade
family lived at The Park, Market Deeping, in a building later renamed the
Wade House.
Wade won the Marlborough College Prize for Instrumental Composition at the age of 15 and was actively peforming in a jazz band.
In the 1920s, Hugh Armigel Wade was hailed as one of the "youngest musical
talents in Britain".
In 1926 Wade was promoted by the Shaftesbury Avenue musical publishers, Bert Feldman. ''When the Love Bird Leaves the Nest'' was a fox-trot favorably received by the public. In February 1928 the magazine ''The Era'' promoted Wade's fox-trot ''When I Met Sally''. Other compositions are ''When the Swallows Fly Home'', ''Rosalie'', ''Like a Virginia Creeper'', ''Why Am I Blue'', ''Somewhere in Samarsk''.
Wade was active in London social life at the time, including the Bright Young Things. On 30 May 1932, Wade was among the guests of the dinner party of Elvira Mullens Barney and Michael Scott Stephen at 21 William Mews; among the other guests: Arthur Jeffress, Sylvia Coke, Denys Skeffington Smyth, Brian Howard, Toni Altmann, Irene Mac Brayne, Arthur Streek, Olivia Wyndham and her then girlfriend, Catherine "Ruth" Baldwin (the longtime companion of Joe Carstairs), Edward Gathorne-Hardy.[1] On the early morning of 31 May 1932, Stephen died of bullet wound and Barney was arrested and charged with murder. Hugh Armigel Wade and Arthur Jeffress appeared at the trial.
In 1936 he collaborated on "To and Fro", in the 1940s worked with Leigh Stafford on ''Let it be Soon'', and in 1948 wrote ''Time May Change'' for the musical ''Maid To Measure''.
He died on 10 April 1949.
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