And Did Those Feet – Six British Jazz Composers
Duncan Heining
Jazz in Britain 320pp (pb) £19.99
At one point during this journey through the work of six prime movers in British jazz the author mercifully dismisses the old canard about how ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture’. No-one ever offers the rejoinder that many choreographers would surely be more than happy to create a dance about architecture; furthermore, to partially borrow this as a metaphor, the composers ★★★★★
