Black British Swing

[Big Beat Steve]

While looking through Amazon for a reissue CD with the same title, I chanced upon this book:

https://www.amazon.de/Black-British-Swing-Diasporas-Contribution/dp/0953704092/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1295902234&sr=8-3

"Black British Swing" by Andrew Simons

Looks like a very interesting read. Yet the Amazon website on the one hand gives an October, 2009 publication date but on the other the availability reads as if it still remains to be published. And another site found on the Web says it is due out "approximately in March, 2012". Uncommonly precise timing that far in advance.

Have any of the British forumists around here heard of this book or do any of you maybe even have more concrete details of its publishing status?

Looks like one that might be worth keeping an eye on - to me anyway ...

Edited January 24, 2011 by Big Beat Steve

[RJ Spangler]

Sounds interesting...

[JohnS]

It's not listed on the publishers website so perhaps the 2012 date bis right.

Inceidentally I went to a talk by the author around the time the cd came out. If I remember correctly he worked for the British Library and had access to all manner of archive material.

[Big Beat Steve]

Incidentally I went to a talk by the author around the time the cd came out. If I remember correctly he worked for the British Library and had access to all manner of archive material.

That's right. Received the CD yesterday (it's an ear opener to those interested in British jazz of that era, BTW - gave it several spins last night) and the booklet dwells rather extensively on his involvement with those archives.

Edited January 26, 2011 by Big Beat Steve