Let me say, first of all, that what follows is a personal record, rather than a comprehensive account. It will relate to the development in Britain of what is generally termed ‘modern jazz’—although this music has been developing for well over 20 years now. Also I shall be dealing, mainly, with small group jazz —the area in which I have been operating most of the time. The fountainhead of the ‘modern’ movement in this country is usually said to have been the Club Eleven, which existed in the late ‘forties. Actually, though, things started happening a little earlier at a club in Ol…
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