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Labyrinth - British Jazz On Record 1960 - 75

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Lansdowne Books

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WORLD COUNTDOWN 1966-1967 brand new hardback book

zoothorn

Another amazing Lansdowne book. Looking forward to further volumes

May 2025


PRESSING NEWS: British Music As It Happened 1962-1972 NEW HARDBACK BOOK

leaf_hound

great book. and it is .... huge ... and heavy ... 403 pages of very informative content. put on a record & enjoy :-)

December 2024


PRESSING NEWS: British Music As It Happened 1962-1972 NEW HARDBACK BOOK

zoothorn

Another amazing book, great work Richard Packaging perfect, postage all good!! We need part 2

December 2024


Labyrinth - British Jazz On Record 1960 - 75

CherrywoodL

The best book on the british jazz scene in the 1960s and early 1970s that i own and i have quiet a few.

December 2024


PRESSING NEWS: British Music As It Happened 1962-1972 NEW HARDBACK BOOK

flying500

Excellent record and service.

November 2024


PRESSING NEWS: British Music As It Happened 1962-1972 NEW HARDBACK BOOK

MortonCandy

Brilliant book

October 2024


Labyrinth - British Jazz On Record 1960 - 75

johnnyaallen

Thank you for a truly wonderful book!

February 2024


Labyrinth - British Jazz On Record 1960 - 75

RevSteve

Superb book. The 'at the time' reviews are interesting, and often funny. Beautifully produced and fascinating.

February 2024


Labyrinth - British Jazz On Record 1960 - 75

davide31

everything ok !

February 2024


Labyrinth - British Jazz On Record 1960 - 75

Moyshe58

Top stuff!!

February 2024


Description

LABYRINTH: BRITISH JAZZ ON RECORD 1960 – 75

 

 

This utterly engrossing feast focuses on the ‘golden period’ of British jazz, when boundary-breaking and experimentation first broke through. Featuring large sleeve reproductions (both front and back), period reviews, historical overviews and vintage music press adverts, Labyrinth finally puts this music on the pedestal it rightly deserves  Jon Newey (editor, Jazzwise)

 

Written by Richard Morton Jack (Galactic RamblePsychedelia, Nick Drake: The Life),  Labyrinth is a massive limiyed edition hardback, 375pp in length, printed on high-quality art paper, with an embossed cover and cloth quarter-binding,.

 

It celebrates over three hundred albums, offering detailed background info about each, alongside excerpts from original reviews and masses of high-quality images that reproduce their fabulous artwork and labels at near-full size. It also features a fascinating introduction by Tony Reeves (Mike Taylor Quartet, New Jazz Orchestra, Colosseum etc). 

 

Covering abstract jazz, avant-garde jazz, serial jazz, free jazz, Indo-jazz, jazz-rock and more, it tells a story Britain should be proud of: open-minded and creative musicians pushing the boundaries of their art in the face of penury and indifference, and welcoming influences from a range of other cultures via immigrant musicians such as Joe Harriott (Jamaica), Amancio D’Silva (India), Guy Warren (Ghana) and Harry Beckett (Barbados). 

 

Some sample pages can be seen above. 

 

Each copy is shrinkwrapped and will be sent double-boxed for maximum protection. 


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