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Peter Gammond,Peter Clayton

Know About Jazz

Fifty five years after it was first released, the best-selling Know About Jazz compendium is being re-released as an Ebook by G2. Written by Peter Clayton, who from October 1968 until his death in August 1991, presented jazz recordings, interviews, studio performances, and live performances on BBC Radio 1, 2, and 3, as well as the BBC World Service; and Peter Gammond, author of more than 50 books on music, who is now 93 years-old and living with his wife Anna in Shepperton, where they listen to jazz most days of the week.
125 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
Publisher
G2 Rights
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  • Inna Shamshinahas quoted3 years ago
    W. C. Handy Composer (1873–1958)

    Journalists call him the Father of the Blues. This is not quite true: he was actually the first to write down blues tunes, which is not the same thing at all. Best known as the composer of St. Louis Blues (1941).
  • Inna Shamshinahas quoted3 years ago
    Lionel Hampton Vibraphone, piano, drums (b. 1913)

    Shares with Milt Jackson the honour of being the best-known vibraphone player in jazz.
  • Inna Shamshinahas quoted3 years ago
    Eldridge Trumpet, fluegelhorn (b. 1911)

    Though not so well known now, Eldridge was a most important trumpeter in the 30s, doing a lot towards developing the trumpet from the point to which Armstrong had taken it in the 20s. His fame was widest during the years 1941–43 when he was with the Gene Krupa orchestra.

    RECORDS Swingin’ on the Town—HM V 7EG 8682 (EP); Coleman Hawkins and his Confrères—HMV 7EG 8625 (EP).
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