The National Jazz Archive is delighted to announce the appointment of two new Trustees to the Board: Martin Astell and Ellie Pridgeon.Both were appointed in April 2021 and bring a wealth of complementary archive experience to the 13-person Board.Martin is Manager of Essex Record Office, based in Chelmsford. He has worked with a range of archives, i …
Roger Cotterrell takes a retrospective look at an evocative and engaging memoir by jazz writer Ralph Berton. It takes real skill and talent to be able to evoke in print a completely vanished social world – like, for example, the so-called ‘jazz age’ in America in the 1920s. For all of us that is just history now and, while historians can tel …
