Alyn Shipton
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Alyn Shipton | |
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Born | 24 November 1953 |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | St Edmund Hall, Oxford; Oxford Brookes University |
Occupation(s) | Jazz author, presenter, critic and bassist |
Alyn Shipton (born 24 November 1953) is an English jazz author, presenter, critic, and jazz bassist.
Early life
Shipton became interested in jazz in his youth and formally studied cello, but also played double bass in a school jazz band. He played both cello and bass in the West Surrey Youth Orchestra, and played in the first performance of John Dankworth's "Tom Sawyer's Saturday" commissioned for the Farnham Festival.
After winning an open scholarship to read English at
Later life and career
On leaving university, Shipton became an editor at
In 1987, Shipton moved to Oxford to manage the reference publishing at
In 2001, he was named "Jazz Writer of the Year" at the British Jazz Awards.[1] In 2003, he won the Willis Conover/Marian McPartland Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Broadcasting award from the Jazz Journalists' Association. In 2010, he was Jazz Broadcaster of the Year in the UK Parliamentary Jazz Awards. From 2007 until 2012 he presented Jazz Library on BBC Radio 3, before taking over the long-running programme Jazz Record Requests in May from Geoffrey Smith.[2] From 2016 to 2019, Shipton was executive producer of BBC Radio 3's new series Jazz Now.[3] He also served as executive producer for Radio 3's Sunday Morning classical show from 2012 to 2019.
Shipton is the author of biographies (in addition to Waller) of
Shipton has been an active musician throughout his career, working with the London Ragtime Orchestra (with whom he recorded two LPs), the big band Vile Bodies, Bill Greenow's bands Chansons and Rue Bechet, and he currently co-leads the Buck Clayton Legacy Band. The band's CD Claytonia recorded in concert at Sage, Gateshead, by
Publications
- As author
- Fats Waller His Life and Times (Universe, 1988)
- The Glass Enclosure - The Life of Bud Powell (with Alan Groves) (Bayou Press, 1993)
- Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie (Oxford, 1999)
- The Jazz Makers: Vanguards of Sound (Oxford, 2002)
- A New History of Jazz (Continuum, 20010. Revised edition, Bloomsbury, 2007)
- Handful Of Keys - Conversations with Thirty Jazz Pianists (Equinox, 2004)
- Out of the Long Dark - The Life of Ian Carr (Equinox, 2006)
- I Feel A Song Coming On - The Life of Jimmy McHugh (Illinois UP, 2009)
- Hi De Ho - The Life of Cab Calloway (Oxford, 2010)
- Nilsson - The Life of a Singer-Songwriter (Oxford, 2013)
- The Art Of Jazz (Imagine, 2020)
- On Jazz - A Personal Journey (Cambridge, 2022)
- The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets (Oxford, 2023)
- As editor
- Danny Barker: A Life In Jazz (Macmillan, 1986. Revised edition, New Orleans Historic Collection, 2017)
- Doc Cheatham: I Guess I'll Get The Papers and Go Home (Cassell, 1996)
- Danny Barker: Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville (Continuum, 1998)
- George Shearing: Lullaby of Birdland (Continuum, 2004)
- Chris Barber: Jazz Me Blues (Equinox, 2014)
- Billy J Kramer: Do You Want To Know a Secret (Equinox, 2016)
References
- ^ "BBC Radio 3 bio". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ Stephen Graham, "Jazz breaking news: Geoffrey Smith to leave Jazz Record Requests", Jazzwise (website), 20 March 2012.
- ^ "7digital to produce BBC Radio 3 jazz programming". About.7digital.com. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ "All About Jazz Interview". Archived from the original on 24 December 2001. Retrieved 22 February 2012.