Stuart Nicholson (Author)

Stuart Nicholson (* 1948 ) is a British music journalist and author .

Life

Nicholson studied music at the Welsh College of Music and Drama . In the 1970s he led a jazz rock band and performed on the BBC , BBC Radio and ITV . His adaptation of a traditional Welsh folk song that he recorded with his band became the signature tune of BBC Radio Wales' Sportstime program for over ten years . In 1980 he ended his activity as an active musician in order to turn to music journalism, since 1991 full-time.

In 1990, Nicholson's first book, Jazz: The Modern Resurgence, was published on 1980s jazz, followed by biographies on Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington ; He also contributed to The Cartoon Music Book (Daniel Goldmark, Yuval Taylor, 2002) and The Cambridge Companion to Jazz (2003) with a section on the swing era . He contributed to The Encyclopaedia of the Harlem Renaissance (2005) and is co-author of the anthology Future Jazz (2002).

Nicholson also wrote reviews of jazz and jazz rock in music magazines such as Jazzwise (including The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World , 2006) and for daily newspapers such as The Observer and The Guardian . He published reviews and features in JazzTimes ; also conducted a number of interviews for websites such as Jazz.com , etc. a. with Manfred Eicher and Nik Bärtsch . As a visiting professor in music journalism , he taught at Leeds College of Music.

Fonts

• Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz . C. Scribner's Sons, New York 1993, OCLC 680292435 .
• Billie Holiday . Northeastern University Press, Boston 1995, ISBN 1-55553-303-5 .
• Jazz: The 1980s Resurgence . New York 1995, ISBN 0-306-80612-6 .
• Jazz Rock: A History . Schirmer Books, New York 1998, ISBN 0-02-864679-7 . (also: Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 1998, ISBN 0-86241-817-8 )
• Reminiscing in Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ellington . Northeastern University Press, Boston 1999, ISBN 1-55553-380-9 .
• Max Harrison , Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, Stuart Nicholson: The Essential Jazz Records. Volume 2: Modernism to Postmodernism. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000.
• Is Jazz Dead? Or Has It Moved to a New Address . Routledge, New York 2005, ISBN 0-415-96708-2 .

Web links

• Stuart Nicholson: Jazztronica: A Brief History of the Future of Jazz. In: JazzTimes. 2003.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait at Musictank
2. ^ Publications in the Guardian
3. ↑ Nicholsons publications in JazzTimes 2004-06
4. ↑ Interview (2007) with Manfred Eicher ( memento of the original from November 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Interview (2007) with Nik Bärtsch ( memento of the original from April 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.