Graham Colombé, Author at Jazz Journal The genuine article since 1948 Tue, 13 May 2025 09:09:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://jazzjournal.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-Swann-CS-logo-for-site-icon-Customing-Site-Identity.jpg Graham Colombé, Author at Jazz Journal 32 32 Hearing Double  https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2025/05/13/hearing-double/ Tue, 13 May 2025 09:09:00 +0000 https://jazzjournal.co.uk/?p=132480 Brian Kane, the author of this book, is a Yale academic and an experienced jazz musician. And that may explain why some of the book was of no interest to me and some was very interesting indeed. The subtitle of the book is Jazz, Ontology, Auditory Culture and that word “ontology” covers the sections where […]

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]]> Un Noël de Jelly Roll Morton https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2024/11/24/un-noel-de-jelly-roll-morton/ Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://jazzjournal.co.uk/?p=126489 Alain Gerber is a noted writer on jazz but also, to the wider French public, a highly acclaimed writer of fiction. He has already combined real musicians with fiction in books concerning such names as Armstrong, Davis and Holiday, where his imagination has taken flight from what is known about their lives and personalities. I […]

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]]> Fantasies Of Nina Simone https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2024/10/18/fantasies-of-nina-simone/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:10:05 +0000 https://jazzjournal.co.uk/?p=123510 You’d probably have to be very keen on Nina Simone’s music to want this book, and the author is, of course, just that. He’s also keen on very complex prose, quoting two chopped-off chunks of Malik Gaines’ observation that “In the black expressive context, as in Simone’s performance methodology, multiple positionality is a source of […]

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]]> A Trumpet Around The Corner – The Story of New Orleans Jazz https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2024/06/08/a-trumpet-around-the-corner-the-story-of-new-orleans-jazz/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:43:32 +0000 https://jazzjournal.co.uk/?p=116269 Samuel Charters traces how jazz arose from the Afro-European melting pot that was nineteenth century New Orleans

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]]> At The Vanguard Of Vinyl https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2024/05/22/at-the-vanguard-of-vinyl/ Wed, 22 May 2024 14:26:06 +0000 https://jazzjournal.co.uk/?p=115496 The language may challenge comprehension, but the book has good detail on Ellington, Gillespie, Adderley and Mingus

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]]> Knowing Jazz / Learning Jazz https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2024/04/23/knowing-jazz-learning-jazz/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:13:46 +0000 https://jazzjournal.co.uk/?p=114083 Two books by American academic discuss the jazz community, jazz education, jazz criticism and the interest in jazz history

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]]> Dreams In Double Time https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2024/01/12/dreams-in-double-time/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 10:01:00 +0000 https://jazzjournal.co.uk/?p=110104 Californian English prof discusses four non-native US jazz players, including himself, in the context of sociology, racism and politics

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]]> Prehistory Of Jazz https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2023/11/08/prehistory-of-jazz/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 12:03:00 +0000 https://jazzjournal.co.uk/?p=107862 Maximilian Hendler minimises the significance of Africa in the development of jazz, pointing out that much came from Europe

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]]> Debt And Redemption In The Blues – The Call For Justice https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2023/10/28/debt-and-redemption-in-the-blues-the-call-for-justice/ Sat, 28 Oct 2023 11:26:29 +0000 https://jazzjournal.co.uk/?p=107427 Scholarly treatise finds that complaints in the blues about unfaithful women are metaphors for dissatisfaction with socio-economic conditions

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]]> Making The Low Notes – A Life In Music https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2023/08/05/making-the-low-notes-a-life-in-music/ Sat, 05 Aug 2023 09:31:07 +0000 https://jazzjournal.co.uk/?p=104406 Bill Harrison, sometime bassist with Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach, writes engagingly about his life and work

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