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Name: Big Beat Steve
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The Bloomsbury Book Shop run by John Chilton's wife (a connection I was unaware of then) where I bought the 3-LP set with Clifford Brown's Paris sessions from the record bin.

Name: Jazzjet
Comment: Great memories, Big Beat Steve. I had forgotten about the Chilton's book shop, oddly because I used to work just around the corner. I grabbed some wonderful bargains there including some discographies which I still have and a battered, original copy of Leonard Feather's 'Inside Bebop'. Plus I used to buy my copy of Jazz Monthly there - always used to prefer JM to Jazz Journal.

Dave Harwood
29 Sep 2024 at 08:17
I found this piece in the 'Aberdeen Press & Journal' dated 25th May 1985: “DID you know that Duke Ellington’s alto star Johnny Hodges was christened Cornelius Hodge or that “Mince” sustained Tommy Dorsey’s clarinettist John Muenzenberger throughout his career, after he adopted it as a more manageable surname? Were you aware that violinist Stuff Smith’s nickname obscured the biblical Hezekiah, which appeared on his birth certificate? All and more, much more. revealed in a new. updated edition of John Chilton’s “Who’s Who of Jazz” - a positive mine of information, about more than 1,000 musicians, from Leon Abbey to Bub Zurke. Personal taste in Jazz will dictate whether this is an essential book or not, but for fans of blues, early jazz and swing, it is as indispensable as Debrett to a society hostess. When it first appeared in 1972 under his own Bloomsbury Bookshop imprint, the “Who’s Who” represented an amazing piece of individual scholarship. Now, Chilton trumpeter and musical director for George Melly has revised all the entries and brought each potted biography up to date.”

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