Coleridge Goode Bass Lines

Softcover
209 pgs.
Northway Publications, Publ.
Illustrated

Coleridge Goode has recorded with Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, Ray Nance, George Shearing and countless other jazz stars. Here, assisted by jazz writer Roger Cotterrell, he recalls his life and career including his Jamaica childhood and arrival in Britain in the 1930s, the lively wartime London club scene, the Ray Ellington Quartet of Goon Show fame and his long association with altoist Joe Harriott. He has helped blend jazz with Indian music, serial compositions, choral works and poetry, and he tells about the challenges and rewards of the jazz life.