All together
Humphrey Carpenter, 7 December 1989
The Safest Place in the World: A Personal History of British Rhythm and Blues
by Dick Heckstall-Smith.
Quartet, 178 pp., £14.95, September 1989,0 7043 2696 5 Show More
by Dick Heckstall-Smith.
Quartet, 178 pp., £14.95, September 1989,
Mama said there’d be days like these: My Life in the Jazz World
by Val Wilmer.
Women’s Press, 336 pp., £16.95, September 1989,0 7043 5040 8 Show More
by Val Wilmer.
Women’s Press, 336 pp., £16.95, September 1989,
“... those musical worlds), there is ‘altogether too much good taste in the British jazz scene’. Val Wilmer would probably agree with this last observation. She has made a life and career out of fraternising with jazz musicians – eating with them, sleeping with some of them, writing about and photographing them for journals and newspapers – and ... ”
