Bluff Your Way in Jazz (Bluffer's Guides) - Softcover

No two jazz enthusiasts ever agree about anything. This witty, elegant book, mixing the erudite with the mythical, will bolster spirited disagreements for many years to come. --Alyn Shipton, Writer, Critic And Presenter, BBC Radio 3 S Jazz Record Requests

Hilarious! I m insisting all my civilian friends read this as soon as possible! --Claire Martin OBE, Jazz Singer and Presenter, BBC Radio 3 S Jazz Line-Up

Paul Barnes took up the trumpet aged 11, and while at art school he played in the Weary City Stompers (WC, for short). He has worked as a presenter on BBC Radio 4 s Today, The World at One and Woman s Hour, among others, and continues to dispense his blend of rhythm and rhubarb weekly some say weakly on the BBC radio jazz and blues programme The Late Paul Barnes. Peter Gammond Peter Gammond was an infant prodigy, playing the gramophone at the age of three and revealing a natural winding action that was the admiration of all who beheld it. He is now acknowledged as one of the country s leading gramophone players, as well as the author of an excessive number of books on music. Most of them have been compiled from the bits that zealous editors removed from earlier ones. Thus there is a remarkable uniformity about his work (something that has not escaped his critics).