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Brian Priestley's revision of Chasin'
The Bird: The Life & Legacy of Charlie Parker; Peter Ind's
Jazz Visions: Lennie Tristano &
His Legacy
Living With Jazz: A Reader an
anthology of Dan Morgenstern's writings; Is
Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved To A New Address) by Stuart Nicholson
Elegant
Soul a profile of Gene Harris
Spike
Jones Off the Record The Man Who Murdered Music by Jordan Young
Circular Breathing The Cultural Politics
of Jazz In Britain by George McKay; Music
For the People by James Nott
The
Evolution of Jazz in Britain 1880-1935 by Catherine Parsonage;
A History of Jazz in Britain
1919-50 by Jim Godbolt
BOOK
OF THE MONTH
I Blew It My Way Vic Ash's autobiography
Conversations
In British Jazz by Mike Pearson; Chris Horne's Contemporary
Jazz UK
Ronnie Scott's Some
Of My Best Friends Are Blues has been reprinted: read our review
of this book
Louis
Armstrong's New Orleans by Thomas Brothers; William Howland Kenney's
Jazz On the River
Dizzy
The Life & Times of Dizzy Gillespie by Donald Maggin
It's
About Time, Richard Cook on Miles Davis; The
Last Miles by George Cole
Live
At Harry's 1963 a live recording of Joe Harriott; Michael Garrick's
new release Children of Time, and Jazz
Praises at St Paul's [1968]; Tubby Hayes Quartet live set from 1966
[2 CDs] Addictive Tendencies; Tubby
Hayes Live in London vol 2; Hayes Live
At the Hopbine (1965) and Live at
the Dancing Slipper (1966); Matt Wates Sextet, Ghost
Dance [read about Matt Wates]
NEW
ON VOCALION John Surman's Tales
of the Algonquin [1971] and John Surman
[1968]; Michael Garrick's October Woman
[1965], Black Marigolds [1968] and
The Heart Is A Lotus [1970]; Alan Skidmore's
Once Upon A Time (1970); Mike Westbrook's
Love Songs [1970]
Don Rendell's Playtime
[1958], Roarin' [1961] and Touch
Links Of Gold [1980]; Neil Ardley's Kaleidoscope
of Rainbows; Ian Hamer's Acropolis
we feature the lifes
and careers of Tubby Hayes, Hampton
Hawes, Elmo Hope and Louis
Armstrong
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