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RECONFIGURING SOME NAMES: ALBUMS OF 2024

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I have lately been thinking about Steve Voce. He died thirteen months ago, exactly one month short of his ninetieth birthday, and it is an indication of the high esteem in which he was held that I only found out, by accident, about his death last month. Who was Steve Voce? He was a successful Merseyside businessman - possibly a used car salesman - who in his spare time listened to and wrote and broadcast about jazz. For almost half his life he wrote columns and record reviews for Jazz Journal - the only British jazz magazine readily available to the teenage me of the seventies and early eighties - and for nearly as long as that he hosted a show on Radio Merseyside entitled Jazz Panorama . In more recent years he also served as a jazz obituarist for The Independent . Voce was a writer of scabrous but articulate humour, and many Jazz Journal readers turned to his column first as a matter of routine. When writing about the jazz that he knew and loved, his knowledge was so detailed and d...
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UNCORRECTED BOUND PROOF BOOK PROPOSAL: THE EMOTIONAL REMIX

Marcello Carlin is a lifelong NHS worker who writes about music in his spare time. In fact he has written several million words about music in various blogs, books and publications over the last quarter-century. It is extremely likely that you have not read any of them. I was briefly famous in the late summer of 1967 for being able to read and write fluently at an exceptionally early age. At the time I was assumed to be a child prodigy. Because my parents could not afford specialist tutors for me, however, I had no alternative but to go to school like any other normal child. That was the second mistake. The first mistake was that my status as a child prodigy was a misdiagnosis. As soon as I started school, which in retrospect was somewhere I shouldn't have been left anywhere near, I viewed life and especially other people through a peculiar gauze screen. I could see my peers but couldn't understand the unspoken body language and therefore had an extremely difficult time trying ...
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