Alun Morgan

Alun Morgan (born February 24, 1928 in Pontypridd , Wales , † November 11, 2018 ) was a British jazz critic and jazz author.

Morgan became interested in jazz as a teenager in England during World War II. A fundamental impression was Charlie Parker in the late 1940s. From the beginning of the 1950s Morgan was a critic for Melody Maker , Jazz Journal International, Jazz Monthly and Gramophone (and from 1969 for 20 years with a weekly jazz column in a newspaper from Kent ) and author of numerous (over 2500) liner notes (first from mid 1950s for Vogue Records). From 1954 he was also regularly on the radio with jazz programs. He is the author of an influential book on modern jazz in England and co-author of several books on jazz records. He has lectured on jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music in London.

He was also a full-time architect until 1991.

Fonts

with Raymond Horricks Modern Jazz- A survey of developments since 1939 , London, Gollancz, 1956, Reprint, Greenwood Publishing, Westport 1977
Count Basie , Hippocrene Books 1984
with Albert McCarthy , Paul Oliver , Max Harrison : "Jazz on record: a critical guide to the first 50 years", London, Hanover Books, 1968 and New York 1968, Oak Publications.
with Charles Fox, Peter Gammond, Alexis Korner Jazz On Record: A Critical Guide , A Gray Arrow Book, Hutchinson, 1960
with Max Harrison, Ronald Atkins, Michael James, Jack Cooke Modern Jazz- The Essential Records , Aquarius Books 1975
with Keith Shadwick , Dave Gelly , Steve Voce, Brian Priestley The Gramophone Jazz Good Cd Guide , Gramophone Publications 1995

Web links

Brief biography

Individual evidence

↑ Alun Morgan, writer whose lucid prose enthused generations of jazz lovers - obituary. In: The Telegraph . December 6, 2018, accessed December 20, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Morgan, Alun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British jazz critic and jazz writer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pontypridd , Wales
DATE OF DEATH	November 11, 2018

[1] Alun Morgan, writer whose lucid prose enthused generations of jazz lovers - obituary. In: The Telegraph . December 6, 2018, accessed December 20, 2018 .