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Peter JonesPeter Jones is a journalist and biographer. His next book, due to be published by Chicago Review Press in 2022, is a biography of a famously eccentric and well-loved musician - details to be announced.
Peter’s recent books THIS IS HIP: THE LIFE OF MARK MURPHY (Equinox Publishing, 2018) and THIS IS BOP: JON HENDRICKS AND THE ART OF VOCAL JAZZ (Equinox Publishing, 2020) have been widely praised, and both were nominated for the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. He has written more than 200 articles for London Jazz News, and is also a senior writer for Jazz in Europe. As a singer, musician and composer, he has released three albums under his own name — One Way Ticket to Palookaville (2013), Utopia (2016) and Under the Setting Sun (2017). More recently his jazz-pop ensemble Zoöphyte have released an album — Signs of Life (2020) and an EP — Out of the Cave (2021). Peter’s past life includes teaching Navajo teenagers in New Mexico, writing hit computer games and working as company spokesman for Spitting Image. Follow Peter Jones on Twitter Visit Peter's website here. |
Praise for This is Hip:
“Mr Jones is a most gifted writer… He has written an amazing account of Mark’s life… Before reading it I wouldn’t have believed that I could learn so much more about a man that I already knew” Steve Voce, Jazz Journal
“An exemplary text… Journalist and singer Peter Jones has written the definitive biography of Mark Murphy” Angelo Leonardi, All About Jazz
Praise for This is Bop:
“This evocative work conveys the challenges and successes Hendricks experienced and makes for an affecting, well-rounded portrait of an underappreciated jazz artist who is ripe for rediscovery” Barry Zaslow, Library Journal
“Thoroughly researched on both sides of the Atlantic and featuring interviews with many of Hendrick’s close family and colleagues, This Is Bop is an insightful and entertaining portrait of a flawed though much-loved jazz great” Ian Patterson, All About Jazz
“Mr Jones is a most gifted writer… He has written an amazing account of Mark’s life… Before reading it I wouldn’t have believed that I could learn so much more about a man that I already knew” Steve Voce, Jazz Journal
“An exemplary text… Journalist and singer Peter Jones has written the definitive biography of Mark Murphy” Angelo Leonardi, All About Jazz
Praise for This is Bop:
“This evocative work conveys the challenges and successes Hendricks experienced and makes for an affecting, well-rounded portrait of an underappreciated jazz artist who is ripe for rediscovery” Barry Zaslow, Library Journal
“Thoroughly researched on both sides of the Atlantic and featuring interviews with many of Hendrick’s close family and colleagues, This Is Bop is an insightful and entertaining portrait of a flawed though much-loved jazz great” Ian Patterson, All About Jazz