02919nam 2200433 450 991079303290332120200207140340.01-4985-7447-5(CKB)4100000006096219(MiAaPQ)EBC5495872(EXLCZ)99410000000609621920180928d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGordon Stretton, Black British transoceanic jazz pioneer a new jazz chronicle /Michael Brocken and Jeff DanielsLanham :Lexington Books,[2018]©20181 online resource (353 pages)1-4985-7446-7 Foreword --1.Introduction: "The times are always contained in the rhythm" (attributed to Quincy Jones) --2.Literature --Section one:Survival and emergence: From Liverpool to London --3.Survival: The Liverpool of William Masters --4.Emergence: "Gordon Stretton" --5.Identification: London (and Jazz) Calling! Dark Town Jingles, Billy Dorsey, "They did a Marconi test in a plane" --6.Fragments: A summary of Gordon Stretton's career prior to Paris via historical fragments: Advertising, promotional materials, sheet music, recordings --Section two:Affirmation: "And so to Paris" --7.Affirmation --Section three:Celebration: The Latin American adventure; Brazil and Argentina --8.Celebration! Gordon Stretton and transoceanic jazz --9.Verification: Audiovisuals and a home in Argentina --g10.Gordon Stretton and the Anglo Argentine community in Buenos Aires --11.Confirmation: So, what can we learn? --Appendix 1:Timelines --Appendix 2:Short biographical notes on members of the Jamaican Choral Union --Appendix 3:Brief pen pictures of a few musicians who performed with Gordon Stretton --Appendix 4:Email received from Guy Revell, Royal Air Force Museum, London --Appendix 5:Discography --Bibliography --Index --About the authors.In charting the life and times of Gordon Stretton, this text makes a major contribution to both jazz and popular music studies. By asking historians to re-evaluate the contributions made to the development of jazz by those 'other than' African Americans, it proposes new jazz histories emanating from pathways, influences and encounters.Jazz musiciansGreat BritainBiographyJazzEnglandLiverpoolHistoryBiographies.lcgftJazz musiciansJazzHistory.785.420922Brocken Michael1471544Daniels JeffMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793032903321Gordon Stretton, Black British transoceanic jazz pioneer3683855UNINA