History of European Jazz

Francesco Martinelli is a jazz promoter, journalist, lecturer, translator and author. He is the author of magazine articles and monographs about Evan Parker, Joelle Leandre and Mario Schiano. He teaches the history of jazz and related subjects at the Siena Jazz Foundation as well as in other conservatories in Italy. He has lectured at NYU, Wesleyan and Columbia Universities in USA, at Bilgi and ITU in Istanbul, at the Paris Conservatoire Nationale, and many other institutions.

• Series editor's introductionAlyn ShiptonEuropean Jazz: Stories that needed to be toldFrancesco MartinelliPart 1: Western Europe1 FranceXavier Prevost2a Great Britain: 1900-1960Alyn Shipton2b Great Britain: 1950-2010. Late-flowering seeds of the triangular tradeDuncan Heining3 IrelandCormac Larkin4 GermanyMartin Pfleiderer5 The NetherlandsBert Vuijsje6 BelgiumJean-Pol SchroederTranslated by Annie Shipton and Alyn ShiptonAdditional information provided by Matthias Heyman7 LuxembourgMarc DemuthPart 2: Scandinavia8 DenmarkTore Mortensen9a Sweden: 1919-1969Jan Bruer9b Sweden: 1970-2000Mans Wallgren10 FinlandJuha Henriksson11 NorwayBjorn Stendahl12 IcelandVernhardur LinnetPart 3: Central Europe13 PolandKrystian BrodackiTranslated by Halina Maria Boniszewska14 Czech Republic-SlovakiaYvetta Kajanova15 HungaryGabor Turi16 AustriaAndreas Felber17 SwitzerlandBruno SpoerriPart 4: Eastern Europe18 Russia: Ninety-five years in search of an identityCyril Moshkow19 BelarusDzm tri PadbiarezskiTranslated by Cyril Moshkow20 UkraineAlexander YudinPart 5: The Western Mediterranean21 SpainChema Garcia Martinez22a Portugal: 1920-1974Pedro Cravinho22b Portugal: 1974-2010Rui Eduardo Paes23 ItalyFrancesco MartinelliPart 6: The Baltic states24 LatviaIndrikis Veitners25 LithuaniaRuta Skudiene26 EstoniaTiit LaukPart 7: South-east Europe27 GreeceSakis Papadimitriou28 Former YugoslaviaMike Mazur29 RomaniaVirgil Mihaiu30 BulgariaVladimir GadjevPart 8: Europe/Asia31 TurkeyHulya Tuncag32 AzerbaijanRain Sultanov33 ArmeniaArmen ManukyanPart 9: Themes34 Early African American EntertainersRainer E. Lotz35 Django Reinhardt and jazz manoucheMichael Dregni36 Jews and Jewish musicGabriele Coen37 The avant-garde: Black-and-White Atlantic dialogues, c. 1960sMichael Heffley38 FilmSelwyn Harris39 FestivalsGeorge McKay