Kitty Grime

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Kitty Grime (actually Mary Christine Godfrey Grime , born January 31, 1930 in Derby (Derbyshire) , † August 21, 2007 ) was a British journalist, music critic and jazz singer .

Life

Grime was the eldest of three daughters of a school principal and a music teacher. She studied English at London University ; in addition, she appeared in amateur theater groups before she became known in the jazz scene in London's Soho district in the 1950s . She wrote concert programs and blurbs for Carlo Krahmer's jazz label Esquire Records and began writing about jazz. She frequented Ronnie Scott and Johnny Dankworth circles , as well as Studio 51 on Great Newport Street. She also sang, played the piano and wrote lyrics. In 1959 she ended her engagement with Esquire to write for Decca Records . Two years later she switched to Jazz News and published her articles in the column What I Feel About Jazz , in which she wrote about musicians like Charles Mingus and Kathy Stobart , and later also about the pioneers of free jazz like John Coltrane , Ornette Coleman and Joe Harriott .

From 1962 when Grime wrote Observer in the style -Kolumne, from the late 1960s for the magazine Woman's Own over decor and furnishings. She also wrote travel and accommodation books, and in 1979 a book on Jazz at Ronnie Scott's . Her book Jazz Voices was published in 1983 , with portraits of musicians such as Jon Hendricks , Annie Ross and Ray Ellington . In the 1980s she appeared again as a singer, accompanied by jazz musicians Dave Cliff , Jeff Clyne , Phil Lee and Brian Lemon , and others. a. in the Royal Festival Hall .

Fonts

  • New York City . New York, Mayflower Books, 1979. ISBN 0-8317-6362-0 .
  • Jazz at Ronnie Scott's . Robert Hale: London, 1979.
  • Illustrated Guide to Furniture Repair and Restoration . Arco Pub., 1980.
    • German translation: Repairing and restoring furniture. With a foreword by the author . Translated from the English by Sylvia Gohl. Cologne-Braunsfeld: Rudolf Müller Verlag, 1981. ISBN 3-481-25731-7 .
  • Kitty Grime, Peter Murphy: The Teenagers' Handbook: A Guide to Good Times (Teens) . Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1992.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary in The Guardian
personal data
SURNAME Grime, kitty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grime, Mary Christine Godfrey (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Derby (Derbyshire)
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2007