"After Django" - Jazz postwar France to the 80s...new book

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Have just ordered up "After Django"
Making Jazz in Postwar France - Tom Perchard.

Musicians, clubs, critics, culture etc.

Looks fascinating if a tad expensive from the Univ of Michigan.

Tom Perchard was Alyn Shipton's guest for the excellent Barney Wilen Jazz Library...and stimulus for my recent JRR "Porgy" request.

Allez les berets.

BN.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Have just ordered up "After Django"
Making Jazz in Postwar France - Tom Perchard.

Musicians, clubs, critics, culture etc.

Looks fascinating if a tad expensive from the Univ of Michigan.

Tom Perchard was Alyn Shipton's guest for the excellent Barney Wilen Jazz Library...and stimulus for my recent JRR "Porgy" request.

Allez les berets.

BN.

(Dr) Perchard researches and lectures at Goldsmiths.
As jazz diffuses and loses/lost its once quasi popular base and vitality, it now seems to advance as a removed academic study area and as an illuminator for wider cultural studies and 'ologies.



BN.

Discuuuuuuuuuuus.

[eighthobstruction]

(Dr) Perchard researches and lectures at Goldsmiths.
As jazz diffuses and loses/lost its once quasi popular base and vitality, it now seems to advance as a removed academic study area and as an illuminator for wider cultural studies and 'ologies.



BN.

Discuuuuuuuuuuus.

....Yes indeed ....sorta does doesn't it....beards are more sculptured now, rather than just a messy growth....Shortage of corduroy?

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....Yes indeed ....sorta does doesn't it....beards are more sculptured now, rather than just a messy growth....Shortage of corduroy?

They have Gil Evans piped thro the senior common rooms.... its the law.

BN,

[Alyn_Shipton]

Tom Perchard is also the author of a rather good book on Lee Morgan...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Tom Perchard is also the author of a rather good book on Lee Morgan...

Yes, I only just realised that. He was also on your Lee Morgan Jazz Library? I think one of the best.

The "French" book is a bit pricely but I imagine its not a wide selling title given its academic/cultural concerns. But it looks really useful so ....

I see Brian Case has a book out also. Memories of Dexter, Baker etc. Good reviews.

BN.

[Ian Thumwood]

£26 plus on marketplace but about average for "academic" books about jazz.

The main problem for me with jazz books is that they generally get read very quickly and are therefore expensive from a time perspective. They tend to be very difficult books to put down and some of the more historical efforts can get polished off in a matter of evenings. They tend to be even more readable than history books.