Graham Tayar

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Graham Joseph Tayar (born 1933 in Birmingham ; † April 22, 2016 ) was a British journalist and jazz pianist .

Life

Tayar was the son of a chemist and attended King Edward's School in Birmingham before receiving a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge. After graduating from school, he lived in an artists' colony in southern France, in Ethiopia in the early 1960s, where he taught English and began performing as a jazz pianist. His main job he was a freelance employee of the BBC World Service and reported from African countries. After returning to the UK, he worked on the forerunner program to BBC Radio 3 , produced programs for BBC School Radio and had his own series called Personality and Power , which featured celebrities such as Asa Briggs , Anthony Storr and Oswald Mosley . He was active in the London jazz scene in the 1970s and 89s, performing in sessions at New Merlin's Cave in Islington with musicians such as Bruce Turner , Wally Fawkes and John Barnes. He led the traditional jazz band Crouch End All Stars for forty years . The album Sunday Best: The Crouch End All Stars with Ian Christie (Jazzology) was created around 1985 . He was also active as a poet and published a volume of poems ( Not Too Late for Loving: A Lifetime of Occasional Verse , 2000).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Obituary in The Guardian
  2. ^ Announcement of death
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Hatziolou John Wain: a man of letters . 1997, p. 290
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 10, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Tayar, Graham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tayar, Graham Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2016