Alyn Shipton
About Alyn Shipton
Alyn Shipton has worked in music for many years as a writer, editor, and player. He was the publisher of the New Grove Dictionary series in the 1980s. His own books include numerous biographies, mainly of jazz musicians, including Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Ian Carr, and Cab Calloway. His other books include the award-winning life of singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, and a study of the relationship between visual arts and jazz. His New History of Jazz (2001, revised 2007) won awards on both sides of the Atlantic and is now well established as one of the standard works on the subject. Since 1989 he has presented and produced programs on music and history for BBC Radio. As a double bassist, he has played with many leading British jazz groups, and he currently co-leads the Buck Clayton Legacy Band.
Alyn’s lectures (16)
Date
Title
21 January
Traditional Jazz Revival, USA
11 February
The Traditional Jazz Revival in Britain and Europe, Part 1
25 February
The Traditional Jazz Revival in Britain and Europe, Part 2
6 May
Jazz, Rock and Fusion, Part 1
20 May
Jazz, Rock and Fusion, Part 2
4 November
The Dawn of Jazz in South Africa