Alyn Shipton
Autore di A New History of Jazz
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Alyn Shipton is a critic for The Times in London.
Fonte dell'immagine: www.alynshipton.co.u
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- Data di nascita
- 1953-11-25
- Sesso
- male
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- Alyn Shipton is an award-winning author and broadcaster, who is jazz critic for The Times in London, and a presenter/producer of jazz programmes for BBC Radio. He was Consultant Editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and has a lifelong interest in oral history, including editing the memoirs of Danny Barker, Doc Cheatham and George Shearing. His first biography of Fats Waller, published in 1988, has scarcely been out of print since. His life of Bud Powell (written with Alan Groves) was the first English language biography of the pianist, and his book Groovin’ High, the life of Dizzy Gillespie, won the 1999 ARSC award for the best research of the year. His monumental New History of Jazz, published in 2001, was the Jazz Journalists’ Association Book of the Year, and won Alyn the coveted “Jazz Writer of the Year” title in the British Jazz Awards. In 2003 he won the Willis Conover / Marian McPartland Award for lifetime achievement in Jazz Broadcasting. In 2010 he was named Jazz Broadcaster of the Year in the UK Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Alyn won an open scholarship to Oxford in 1972, where he read English at St. Edmund Hall. He later went on to take a PhD in music history at Oxford Brookes University. He has been a lecturer in music at Brookes (2002-3), teaching the jazz history course, and he has also given lectures on jazz and American popular music at Exeter University and at the Institute for United States Studies in the University of London. He is now lecturer in Jazz History at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Alyn divides his time between living in Oxford, UK, and deep in rural France. [from www.alynshipton.co.uk]
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- Utenti
- 385
- Popolarità
- #62,810
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 74
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- 3
There are hundreds of illustrations in well produced color. Shipton provides us with a history of jazz as a frame in which to hang all these images, which range from early photographs to beautiful art. I personally numerous wildly creative albums from Miles Davis (especially Bitches Brew) and Wynton Marsalis (several featuring artwork by Romare Bearden). The historical material is not comprehensive, but it definitely gives us a solid skeleton on which to hang the artistic material.
Shipton is a well known jazz critic in the UK, and he has written several books about individual artists and groups. I'll be keeping an eye out for them.… (altro)