Alyn Shipton

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Alyn Shipton (born November 24, 1953 ) is a British jazz bassist ( traditional jazz , mainstream jazz ), jazz critic and jazz author.

Shipton studied from 1972 on a scholarship in Oxford, taught English literature at the College of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University and received a doctorate in music history from Oxford Brookes University . In 2002/3 he also taught jazz history at Brookes University, as well as giving courses at the University of Exeter and the University of London (Institute of United States Studies). He switched from the cello to the double bass and played bass in the 1970s and early 1980s in Ken Colyer's band , later in the London Ragtime Orchestra , the Butch Thompson 's King Oliver Centennial Band founded in 1985 and in the big band "Vile bodies" . He toured with Al Casey , Sammy Price , Herbie Hall , Bud Freeman , Louis Nelson , Kid Thomas Valentine , among others . From the mid-1970s he also began writing for "Footnote" as a jazz journalist, first for the New Orleans Jazz Festival 1976. As a jazz critic, he wrote for The Times and moderated, wrote and produced radio programs on jazz from the late 1980s, first for one local radio station in Oxford, soon afterwards on the BBC , including "Jazz Library" on BBC Radio 3, "Jazzmatazz" on BBC World Service (where he interviewed over 200 jazz musicians in six years), "Jazz Notes", "Jazz File" , "Impressions" with Brian Morton . He writes regularly for Piano Magazine and Jazzwise Magazine.

As a jazz author, he wrote books on jazz history (his "New History of Jazz" was British jazz journalists' book of the year and earned him the title of "Jazz writer of the year" at the British Jazz Awards). He has published biographies of Dizzy Gillespie (for which he won the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Prize and the Jazz Times Book of the Year Award in 1999), Fats Waller and Bud Powell . He gave the memoirs of Doc Cheatham ("I'll Guess I Get the Papers and Go Home" 1996), George Shearing (as co-author, "Lullaby of Birdland") and Danny Barker ("Life in Jazz", 1986, ) and edited the autobiographies of Rex Stewart , Andy Kirk , Bud Freeman , Buck Clayton and Teddy Wilson . As an editor at Grove, he was responsible for the Dictionary of Instruments and the Dictionary of American Music , among other things , and was also the consultant editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz with Barry Kernfeld . He also wrote a series of books on musical instruments for children (at Raintree Steck-Vaughn, Austin).

In 2003 he won the Willis Conover / Marian McPartland Lifetime Achievement Award for his jazz radio shows.

Fonts

  • Fats Waller - the Cheerful Little Earful , New York, Universe Books 1988, Continuum 2002
  • with Alan Groves: Glass Enclosure - the Life of Bud Powell 1993, New York, Continuum 2001
  • Groovin High , Oxford University Press 1999 (biography of Dizzy Gillespie)
  • A New History of Jazz 2001, New York, Continuum, ISBN 0-8264-7380-6 , 2007
  • Jazz Makers - Vanguards of Sound , Oxford UP 2002
  • Handful of Keys - Conversations with 30 Jazz Pianists , Equinox 2004
  • Out of the Long Dark - the Life of Ian Carr , London, Oakville, Equinox 2006
  • I Feel a Song Coming On - the Life of Jimmy McHugh , University of Illinois Press 2009, ISBN 9780252034657 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ after his death he also published Barker's book " Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville"
personal data
SURNAME Shipton, Alyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English jazz author and jazz journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1953