John Fordham

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John Fordham (born June 3, 1947 in London ) is a British jazz critic and author of books on jazz .

Fordham is the Guardian's jazz critic . He also wrote on jazz for Time Out , Sounds, Wire and Word, edited Time Out, City Limits and Jazz UK (1999-2008), and reported on radio and TV, including Jazz on 3 on BBC Radio 3. Fordham took an interest for jazz as a teenager and began writing about it for Time Out in 1970 after being inspired to do so by Whitney Balliett 's Sound of Surprise .

Since 2005 he has won the Parliamentary Jazz Awards three times as a jazz critic.

His well-illustrated introductory overview book on jazz has also been translated into German (it contains, among other things, an illustrated discography focusing on British jazz). He wrote a biography of Ronnie Scott and his famous London jazz club.

He also wrote a book on auto mechanics.

Fonts

  • The Sound of Jazz, Hamlyn 1989
  • Jazz on CD: the essential guide, Kyle Cathie 1991
  • Jazz, Dorling Kindersley 1993
    • German translation: The big book of jazz, Christian Verlag 1994, 1998 (Kaleidoscope book, translator Peter Niklas Wilson )
  • Jazzman: Biography of Ronnie Scott, Kyle Cathie 1995
  • Shooting from the Hip: Changing Tunes in Jazz, 1970–95, Kyle Cathie 1996
  • Jazz Heroes, Collins & Brown 1998
  • Story of Ronnie Scott's: the Making of the Man and the Club That Bears His Name, Showtime 1999
  • The Knowledge: Jazz, Quadrille Publ. 2015
  • The reluctant motor mechanic, Whittle Books 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leo Feigin (Ed.): Russian Jazz: New Identity, Quartet Books 1985, p. 61, therein by Fordham: The Ganelin Trio in London
  2. ↑ Leo Feigin, Russian Jazz, p. 61
personal data
SURNAME Fordham, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fordham, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz critic
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH London