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A History of Jazz in Britain 1919-50

Arts & Photography

Godbolt, JIm

Music

Northway Publications

Black British Swing

A jazz book by a man who understands that jazz is struggle not perfection, Mike Zwerin, International Herald Tribune. His book gives us the whole spectrum of post-war pop music the explosion of the Beatles and the demise of the big bands, written in an easy conversational tone, Spike Milligan, Mail on Sunday. Some of Jim Godbolt s passages had me laughing uncontrollably, Times Educational Supplement. Highly intelligent and articulate. . . He has an excellent eye and ear for the quirks of others. . . irresistible, George Melly, Guardian. More than a chuckle guaranteed, Financial Times Hilarious. . . essential reading to anyone with an interest in the bizarre machinations behind the glossy front of showbiz, Music Week

All This and Many a Dog

Jim Godbolt

This title examines in great detail the arrival of jazz in Britain, the influence of American musicians, the big-band era and then the advent of bop, the Musicians' Union ban, the development of jazz journalism and specialist clubs and the fascinating cloak and dagger plots culminating in the defiance of the Musicians' Union ban on the appearance of American musicians in Britain. It features conscientiously researched and related with trenchant and pithy humour.

History of Jazz in Britain 1919-50

Jamaican bandleader and trumpeter Leslie Thompson worked with all the most significant black British swing musicians of the 1930s, including the legendary Spike Hughes and Ken Snakehips Johnson, and performed in London through the Blitz. Later he toured with Louis Armstrong and followed a richly varied career in which, as he reveals in this autobiography, he experienced the many-sided realities of life as a West Indian in Britain in the twentieth century.

Swing from a Small Island: The Story of Leslie Thompson

Jeffrey Green

Humor & Entertainment

Bass Lines: A Life in Jazz

Biographies & Memoirs

Goode, Coleridge

Arts & Literature

Notes from a Jazz Life

Fairweather, Digby

Henry Grimes recorded and toured with some of the most imaginative American jazz musicians including Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, and Albert Ayler. This book examines his long but turbulent musical career, recounting his continuously creative artistic life as bassist, violinist and poet.

Music to Silence to Music: A Biography of Henry Grimes

Barbara Frenz

Henry Grimes recorded and toured with some of the most imaginative American jazz musicians including Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, and Albert Ayler. This book examines the bassist's long but turbulent musical career, recounting his continuously creative artistic life as bassist, violinist and poet. 
Henry's a giant. - Cecil Taylor, 2000. 
On the records he was on, he stood out. He had a big sound, and it really punched out whatever ensemble he was in. - William Parker, 2003. 
I am so happy to hear that Henry is playing again. He is one of the great individualists, and his absence left a space that nobody else could fill. - Dave Holland, 2003. 
Henry has always been a serious, intense, and fearless musician whose personal life reflected those exceptional qualities. I admire him greatly. - Sonny Rollins, 2007. 
Henry Grimes is among the greatest improvisers living in the world today. His playing is exquisite. - Roscoe Mitchell, Mills College, 2010. 
Barbara Ina Frenz, born in 1961 in Zurich, Switzerland, is a German historian, author and copywriter living in Frankfurt am Main. Frenz grew up in a jazz-loving family, studied history, philosophy, and art history in Frankfurt, and gained her PhD with a study on equality in the Middle Ages. Frenz was a research associate at the Universities of Frankfurt and Wurzburg from1989 to '99 undertaking historical studies sponsored by various foundations. Since 2001, after further education in creative writing, she has worked in the creative areas of advertising and as a writer of poetry, texts in history and culture, and contributions to the German jazz magazine Jazzpodium.

Frenz, Barbara

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A History of Jazz in Britain 1919-50

Black British Swing

All This and Many a Dog

History of Jazz in Britain 1919-50

Swing from a Small Island: The Story of Leslie Thompson

Bass Lines: A Life in Jazz

Notes from a Jazz Life

Music to Silence to Music: A Biography of Henry Grimes

Music to Silence to Music: A Biography of Henry Grimes