An Unholy Row: Jazz in Britain and its Audience, 1945-1960 by Dave Gelly is one of two new books on jazz to be published in the early part of 2014.

Set for a 15 January publication date the Equinox book, the latest from the Sheffield-based academic publisher whose recent jazz books have included titles by Kevin Le Gendre and Duncan Heining, chronicles the post-war jazz revival demarcating ‘revivalist’ and ‘modern’ jazz along the way. The book is written by Lester Young biographer The Observer jazz critic Dave Gelly. 

April sees the publication of All This and Slowly Deteriorating Fast: The Memoirs of a Geriatric Jazz Buff (Proper Music Publishing), the first posthumously published book by Jim Godbolt who died in January 2013. It’s a set of reminiscences from the former Jazz at Ronnie Scott’s in-house magazine editor whose books include All This & 10%, All This & Many a Dog, History of Jazz in Britain 1919-1950, and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Farrago.