Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz Pioneer
Subtitle: A New Jazz Chronicle
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781498574464
Subjects: African american musicians; Jazz musicians, biography; Great britain, biography
Description: 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.