Gordon Stretton, Black British transoceanic jazz pioneer : a new jazz chronicle / Mike Brocken and Jeff Daniels.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-311), discography (pages 293-295) and index.

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.

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.

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