biography
Jimmy Jewell has visited five continents on theatre, rock and concert stages as a conductor, composer, arranger, orchestrator, performer and producer.
Jimmy has appeared on the world's most famous stages, including Radio City Music Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Universal Amphitheatre and Sydney Superdome. His music has been recorded and played from Abbey Road to Buenos Aires and he has conducted orchestras and musicians in over fifteen countries. Jimmy is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, and is an Associate Director of the Theatre Royal in Plymouth.
Jimmy runs the Ladida Group, comprising Ladida Management representing actors and creatives in Film, TV and Theatre and Ladida Productions which has produced iN/Vocation, NHS The Musical, Christmas Cat & The Pudding Pirates, West End Christmas, Christmas Academy, An Audience with Louise Dearman, An Evening
of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Louise Dearman’s debut album You and I.
Jimmy's compositional work includes: NHS-The Musical (The Venue, Leicester Square & Theatre Royal Plymouth), Peter Pan (Barbican Theatre), Walk With The Angels (ICA & Soho Theatres, London), Queen of the Underground (Plymouth), Solitary Confinement (Kings Head Theatre, London), Frankenstein (Cochrane Theatre, London & Barbican Theatre, Plymouth), Please Look At Me Now (Edinburgh), TCTap (Tom Chambers), Starchildren (Tunbridge Wells) and the score
to the reading of The Shadow Master for Dragonfly Films. Jimmy is currently writing Who Ate All The Pies – The Football Musical (Drum Theatre) and The Tempest, a musical fantasia based on the play by William Shakespeare, which has already received a workshop performance at English Touring Theatre in London.
Theatre credits as a Musical Director and Conductor include: Evita (European Tour), The Prince & The Pauper (Seattle & US Tour), Fiddler On The Roof (Exeter Northcott), Let Us Fly (London KiHead), Days of Hope (Exeter Northcott), Willy & Rupert (London Bridewell), Dave Willetts in Concert (U.K. Tour), The Last Tango (Manchester), In Nomine Amoris (Royal Academy of Music), Not Quite Bedtime (Edinburgh), Tin Pan Ali (Milton Keynes), Vivian Ellis Prize (London Palladium), Timeswitch (Kirkcaldy), Cinderella and Aladdin (Aylesbury), Sinbad (Warwick) and Young at Art (Belfast). Jimmy was Assistant Musical Director on All You Need Is Love! (London Queens & UK Tour) and Columbia Artists' Strike Up The Band (US Tour). Jimmy has also worked on Mamma Mia (London Prince Edward), Jesus Christ Superstar (US Tour), Bugsy Malone (London Queens & UK Tour), Outlaws (New York), Aladdin (Basingstoke) and Tin Pan Ali (Edinburgh).
Jimmy toured worldwide for three years with Roger Daltrey, Peter Frampton, Alice Cooper, Tony Hadley. Billy Preston, Jon Anderson, Paul Young, Paul Rodgers, Gary Brooker, Alan Parsons, Simon Townshend, Darlene Love and The British Rock Symphony with stadium and arena performances in the United States, Australia, UK, Europe and South America. He was also Musical Director for Met Live (Met Bar) and performed there with Ben Forster, Kelli Young & Hayley Evetts.
Jimmy produced the initial recording of Richard Stilgoe and Roxanna Panoufnik's Upside Down Sailor, was Musical Director of the Sidcup Ladies Barbershop Chorus for 2 years, and worked for Nick Ingman on Lionel Richie's Live In Hanover and Eric Clapton's Grammy® Award winning Reptile.
Original recordings as a performer or orchestrator include: Pendragon, Rock Nativity, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's The Land Before Time and the PBS, ITV, Direct TV and DVD specials of the British Rock Symphony live.
A selection of Jimmy’s television appearances either as a musician or presenter include: Good Morning America (ABC), 10 Best Places… (The Travel Channel), Blue Peter; Royal Variety Performance, Jim'll Fix It, Spotlight, The Listening, Live from the Dominion (BBC), Highway (ITV), When Sex Goes Wrong (Sky One) and The Big Breakfast Millennium Night (C4).
Arrangements and Orchestrations include: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (US Tour), All You Need Is Love! (London Queens & UK Tour), The Musicals - Unplugged (Dave Willetts Album), Radio Broadway (Singers Inc), Radio Hollywood (Singers Inc), M - The Songbook of Motown (Singers Inc), Elliot Ness (Cleveland Playhouse, Ohio), Iris (London Symphony Orchestra, Abbey Road), Every Breath
You Take (Opera Pacific, Los Angeles), You Do Belong (CAST), Some Things Last For Ever (Beverley Stone), You Are So Beautiful (Billy Preston) and Long Distance Runaround (YES/Jon Anderson).
Jimmy was Lead Artist on Birmingham's Gallery 37 regeneration project in 2003 and is a regular guest artist on BBC Radio Five Live's Breakfast, Drive, Matthew Bannister and Anita Anand shows. Jimmy is a Youth Theatre Practitioner, working with Youth Music Theatre:UK. Jimmy is Musical Supervisor for INC's Radio Broadway & Radio Hollywood, and with them created and co-produces M-The Songbook Of Motown, starring Kele Le Roc.