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Alyn Shipton

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Alyn Shipton is the author of several award winning books on music including A New History of Jazz, I Feel a Song Coming On (a biography of songwriter Jimmy McHugh) and Groovin' High: the Life of Dizzy Gillespie. His biography of Harry Nilsson won the 2014 ARSC Award for best pop research, and the 2014 Deems Taylor /Virgil Thomson Award from ASCAP for pop biography. He is jazz critic for The Times in London and has presented jazz programs on BBC radio since 1989. In 2010 he was voted Jazz Broadcaster of the Year in the UK Parliamentary Jazz Awards. He is also an accomplished double bassist, having played with many traditional and mainstream jazz bands, and he lectures in jazz history at the Royal Academy of Music, London.
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    • Nilsson

    • The Life of a Singer-Songwriter
    • Written by: Alyn Shipton
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2014-05-06
    • Language: English
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    • On Jazz

    • A Personal Journey
    • Written by: Alyn Shipton
    • Narrated by: Alyn Shipton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2023-06-20
    • Language: English
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