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 Alyn Shipton Alyn Shipton is an award-winning author and broadcaster, who is jazz critic for The Times in London, and the presenter/producer of Jazz Library for BBC Radio 3. He began broadcasting with the Oxford independent station Fox FM in 1989, and soon afterwards made his first programmes for Radio 3. He has presented several jazz related series for the station, including Impressions (with Brian Morton), Jazz Notes and Jazz File. During his six years as presenter of Jazzmatazz on the BBC World Service, he interviewed well over 200 of the world's leading musicians. He was Consultant Editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and has a lifelong interest in oral history, including editing the memoirs of Danny Barker, Doc Cheatham and George Shearing. His biography of Fats Waller, published in 1988, has scarcely been out of print since. His life of Bud Powell (written with Alan Groves) was the first English language biography of the pianist, and his book Groovin’ High, the life of Dizzy Gillespie, won the 1999 ARSC award for the best research of the year. His monumental New History of Jazz, published in 2001, won Alyn the “Jazz Writer of the Year” title in the British Jazz Awards. A new edition of the book was published in 2007. In 2003 he won the Willis Conover / Marian McPartland Award for lifetime achievement in Jazz Broadcasting. Alyn is also an active double bassist and has toured with many of the great names of traditional and mainstream jazz, including Al Casey, Ken Colyer, Bud Freeman, Herbie Hall, Sammy Price, and Kid Thomas Valentine. Watch the 'Meet Alyn Shipton' video |
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