A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to birth of the genre itself.
'Not solely a book about jazz, or even a nascent cultural shift; it's a record of a pivotal moment in UK history.' Big Issue
By the end of the last century, jazz music was considered by many to be obsolete and uncool, a genre appreciated only by out of touch white men with deeply questionable taste. And yet, by 2019, a new generation of UK jazz musicians was selling out major venues and appearing on festival line-ups around the world. How has UK jazz rehabilitated its image so totally in twenty-five years? And how did it ever become uncool in the first place?
Hardback, 658 pages
Dimensions: 15.75 x 4.32 x 23.88 cm