Brian Priestley

Brian Priestley (* July 10, 1940 in Manchester ) is a British jazz writer and music journalist, pianist and arranger.

Life and work

Priestley learned with eight years of piano and studied Modern Languages ​​at the University of Leeds. He arranged already in the 1960s for the English National Youth Jazz Orchestra and began to write about jazz, for example, with contributions to edited by Albert McCarthy Jazz on Record ( 1968). In 1970 he moved to London, where he arranged for big bands, inter alia, as occurred the Creole Rhapsody by Duke Ellington for Alan Cohen in 1977, and as a jazz pianist. From 1977 to 1993 he taught jazz piano at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is best known as the author of biographies of Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, as well as co -author - with the jazz trumpeter Digby Fairweather, with whom he also starred in their own septet, and Ian Carr - the " Rough Guide Jazz ". He also wrote as a jazz critic for several magazines, including Jazzwise, and worked as a jazz presenter for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio London and "London Jazz FM".

Disco Graphical Notes

  • You Taught My Heart to Sing (1994, Spirit of Jazz)
  • Love You Madly (1999; Louise Gibbs, Brian Priestley & Tony Coe )
  • Who Knows (2004)

Pictures of Brian Priestley

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