Alyn Shipton

Alyn Shipton (* November 24, 1953 ) is a British jazz bassist ( Traditional Jazz, Mainstream Jazz ), Jazz critic and author of Jazz.

Shipton graduated in 1972 with a scholarship at Oxford, taught English literature at the College of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University and received his doctorate from Oxford Brookes University in music history. 2002/3 he also taught jazz history at Brookes University, besides he gave courses at the University of Exeter and the University of London ( Institute of United States Studies). He switched from cello to bass and played as a bass player in the 1970s and early 1980s in the band of Ken Colyer, later in London Ragtime Orchestra, founded in 1985 Butch Thompson 's King Oliver Centennial band and in the big band " Vile Bodies ". He toured with, among others, Al Casey, Sammy Price, Herbie Hall, Bud Freeman, Louis Nelson, Kid Thomas Valentine. From the mid- 1970s he also began as a jazz journalist for " Footnote " to write, first from the New Orleans Jazz Festival 1976. As a jazz critic, he wrote for The Times and moderated, wrote and produced from the late 1980s, radio broadcasts about jazz, first at a local radio station in Oxford, and soon after at the BBC, including " Jazz library" in BBC Radio 3, " Jazzmatazz " on BBC World service ( where he interviewed in six years over 200 jazz musicians ), "Jazz Notes", "Jazz File" " Impressions" by Brian Morton. He writes regularly in "Piano Magazine" and " Jazzwise Magazine".

As jazz writer, he wrote books on jazz history (his " New History of Jazz" book of the year was the British jazz journalist and gave him the title "Jazz writer of the Year" at the British Jazz Awards ). He published biographies of Dizzy Gillespie (for which he won the prize of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections and the Book of the Year Award from the "Jazz Times " 1999), Fats Waller and Bud Powell. He gave the memoirs of Doc Cheatham ( "I'll Guess I Get the Papers and Go Home " 1996), George Shearing ( as co -author, " Lullaby of Birdland" ) and Danny Barker ( "Life in Jazz", 1986 ) out and proofread the autobiographies of Rex Stewart, Andy Kirk, Bud Freeman, Buck Clayton and Teddy Wilson. As an editor at Grove he was responsible for the Dictionary of the instrument and the Dictionary of American Music, he was also consulting with Barry core field editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. He also wrote a book series on musical instruments for children ( at Raintree plug - Vaughn.in Austin ).

In 2003, he won the Willis Conover / Marian McPartland 's Lifetime Achievement Award for his jazz broadcasts on the radio.

Writings

  • Fats Waller - the Cheerful Little Earful, New York, Universe Books 1988, Continuum 2002
  • With Alan Groves: Glass Enclosure - the Life of Bud Powell in 1993, New York, Continuum 2001
  • Groovin High, Oxford University Press 1999 ( biography of Dizzy Gillespie )
  • A New History of Jazz in 2001, New York, Continuum, ISBN 0-8264-7380-6, 2007
  • Jazz Makers - Vanguards of Sound Oxford UP 2002
  • Handful of Keys - Conversations with 30 Jazz Pianists, Equinox 2004
  • Out of the Long Dark - the Life of Ian Carr, London, Oakville, Equinox 2006
  • I Feel a Song Coming On - the Life of Jimmy McHugh, University of Illinois Press 2008
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