Gordon Stretton, Black British transoceanic jazz pioneer : a new jazz chronicle / Mike Brocken and Jeff Daniels.
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 eman...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.