The National Jazz Archive is excited and honoured to display online a collection of photographs by John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins (1937 to 2015), who was an iconic leader of the 1960s ‘counter-culture’ movement. ‘Hoppy’, a jazz fan and social activist, captures this heady, fast-moving period in a series of evocative images. Artists such as Cl …
Roger Cotterrell remembers poet, trumpeter and flugelhorn player Shake Keane as the first biography is published about this groundbreaking jazz musician. How many jazz listeners know Shake Keane’s music now? How many even know his name? There is a loyal minority (and not just jazz people but also lovers of Caribbean music traditions, as well as …
