BRIAN CASE OBITUARY

No one wrote about jazz and related music with the pungency of my friend and former colleague Brian Case, who has died aged 88. His pieces on favourite figures, from Dexter Gordon to Ian Dury, crackled with allusions and insights drawn from a broad cultural hinterland.

Media | The Guardian reports that no one wrote about jazz and related music with the pungency of my friend and former colleague Brian Case, who has died aged 88.

The report adds: His pieces on favourite figures, from Dexter Gordon to Ian Dury, crackled with allusions and insights drawn from a broad cultural hinterland.

Here he is, introducing the young readers of the NME to Miles Davis in 1974: “By the close of the 50s, Miles’s trumpet was the most syndicated sound in jazz.

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