Jeffrey Green has researched the pre-Windrushblack presence in Britain for decades, assisted by veterans such as Leslie Thompson, and has presented his findings in many articles and books, on radio and television, and at conferences. His articles can be found in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the Oxford Companion to Black British History, the Journal of Caribbean History, Black Music Research Journal and New Community. He is the author of a biography of the South Carolina-born, London-educated composer Edmund Thornton Jenkins, and of Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain 1901-1914. He contributed to Bernth Lindfors, Africans on Stage(1999); Samuel Floyd, Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance (1993) and Neil Wynn, Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe (2007). A guitarist, liking 1920s and 1930s jazz, he worked in Uganda in the late 1960s and has travelled globally as an export manager and for curiosity.

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First published in 1985, long out-of-print and now republished in a new edition, the life story of this swing era jazz trumpeter encompasses his experiences in the West India Regiment, his move to Britain in 1929, and performing in London clubs in the Blitz and the post-war years. Thompson worked with the most significant Black British swing musicians and his recollections are recorded in a fascinating narrative and a clear and readable style. From the same publisher, the story of a fellow-musician of Jamaican origin: Bass Lines A Life in Jazz by Coleridge Goode and Roger Cotterrell (ISBN: 978-0-953704-02-6 ).

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Jamaica. Profession: Musician. My Face is My Fortune. Bombadier, cellist. Warden. Probation and Prison. Tony. Africa and Jamaica. Reflections. Notes. Further Reading. Appendices. Glossary. Index.