Brian Priestley

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Brian Priestley

Brian Priestley (born July 10, 1940 in Manchester ) is a British jazz author and music journalist, pianist and arranger.

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Priestley learned the piano at the age of eight and studied modern languages ​​at the University of Leeds . He arranged for the UK's National Youth Jazz Orchestra as early as the 1960s and began writing about jazz, e.g. B. with contributions to the Jazz on Record published by Albert McCarthy (1968). In 1970 he moved to London, where he a. a. arranged for big bands, such as the Creole Rhapsody by Duke Ellington for Alan Cohen in 1977, and appeared as a jazz pianist. From 1977 to 1993 he taught jazz piano at Goldsmiths College of the University of London . He is best known as the author of the biographies of Charlie Parker , Charles Mingus and John Coltrane and as a co-author - with jazz trumpeter Digby Fairweather , with whom he also played in his own septet, and Ian Carr - the "Rough Guide Jazz". He also wrote as a jazz critic for various magazines, including a. Jazzwise , and has worked as a jazz presenter for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio London and London Jazz FM.

Discographic notes

  • You Taught My Heart to Sing (1994, Spirit of Jazz)
  • Love You Madly (1999; Louise Gibbs, Brian Priestley & Tony Coe)
  • Who Knows (2004)

literature

  • Brian Priestley: Charlie Parker. Hippocrene Books, Tunbridge Wells 1984.
  • Brian Priestley: Chasin 'the Bird. The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker. Oxford University Press 2007, ISBN 0-19-532709-8 (with 60 pages of discography).
  • Brian Priestley: John Coltrane. Apollo Press, London 1986.
  • Brian Priestley: Mingus. A Critical Biography. Paladin Books, London and Da Capo Press, New York 1985, ISBN 0-306-80217-1 .
  • Brian Priestley, Digby Fairweather, Ian Carr Jazz: Rough Guide. Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, 2nd edition 2004 ISBN 3-476-01892-X (English edition Rough Guides 2007, ISBN 1-84353-256-5 ). First as jazz. The essential companion. Grafton Books 1988.
  • Brian Priestley: Jazz on Record. Elm Tree Books 1988, ISBN 0-241-12440-9 .
  • Brian Priestley, Dave Gelly , Paul Trynka, Tony Bacon: The Sax and Brass book- saxophones, trumpets and trombones in Jazz, Rock and Pop. Balafon Books 1998.

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personal data
SURNAME Priestley, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English jazz writer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester