TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brocken,Michael
AU  - Daniels,Jeff
TI  - Gordon Stretton, Black British transoceanic jazz pioneer: a new jazz chronicle 
SN  - 9781498574471
AV  - ML419.S826 
U1  - 781.65092 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Stretton, Gordon.
KW  - Jazz musicians
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Drummers (Musicians)
KW  - Jazz
KW  - England
KW  - Liverpool
KW  - History
KW  - Musicians, Black
KW  - Musiciens de jazz
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Batteurs (Instrumentistes)
KW  - Musiciens noirs
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Composers & Musicians
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - aat
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-311), discography (pages 293-295) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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