Alan John Ainsworth – Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960 (Intellect Books, Hardback, 472 pp. Book Review by Andy Hamilton) This fascinating and beautifully-produced book addresses a neglected issue in jazz […]
John Altman – Hidden Man: My Many Musical Lives (Equinox. 290pp. Book Review by John Bungey) Nope, me neither. Which is one reason why John Altman, prolific composer, conductor, arranger and player, […]
Philip Freeman – Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the Twenty-First Century (Zer0 Books, 272pp., £14.99pb. Book Review by Jon Turney) Want to turn a collection of columns into a book? Here’s how. Find […]
Eberhard Weber: A German Jazz Story (Equinox, 190pp., £25. Book Review by Chris Parker) “The notes of a musically conscious man, ideally free of conceit” is how virtuoso bassist Eberhard Weber describes […]
Malik Al Nasir – Letters to Gil: A Memoir (William Collins, 320pp., £20. Book Review by Chris Parker) At the age of eighteen, semi-literate, destitute, bewildered and directionless after spending his adolescence […]
Matthew Wright – ‘Jazz and Cricket – an unlikely combination’(Cadillac Music & Publishing. 75pp. Book review by Mary James) Jazz and cricket may seem an unlikely combination – the former conjures up […]
Amit Chaudhuri – Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music(Faber & Faber. 272pp. Book review by Jay Visvadeva) Finding The Raga follows a journey. It is an autobiographical account of Amit […]
David Burke – Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz(Desert Hearts. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Giant Steps presents short chapters on 25 musicians from the British Caribbean, African and Asian (including West Asia) […]
Michael Spitzer – The Musical Human (Bloomsbury, 2021. Book review by Peter Jones) Listeners to BBC Radio 4 may have heard Simon McBurney reading extracts from this book over recent days: it […]
Sammy Stein – Pause, Play, Repeat – “The real impact of COVID-19 on musicians (mainly jazz)”. (Self-published – purchase link below. 156pp. Pb and e-book. Book review by Jon Turney) Chances are, […]
Jeff Colella – Love Music and it will love you back: Essays on Music (Mouthpiece Music. 118pp. e-book review by John Arnett) How to distil the essence of music and music making, […]
Mark Baxter: Tubby Hayes. The Life Behind The Tenor. (Mono Media Books. £39.95. Book Review by Dave Gelly) It first came out as a limited edition, 100-copy deluxe hardback, price £84.95. It […]
Andy Hamilton – Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford (Bloomsbury Academic. 228pp. Book review by Tony Dudley-Evans) This book presents a series of conversations between author Andy Hamilton and […]
David Harvey – The Look of Jazz (Peterborough: Upfront Publishing. Photobook review by Jane Mann) Musician and photographer David Harvey has used the lockdown to assemble a collection of his photographs of […]
Philip Nanton – Riff: The Shake Keane Story) (Papillote Press. 157pp. Book Review by John Fordham) This may be a short book, but three enthralling stories are entwined in it. One involves […]
