Berklee with Herb
Mosaics - The Life and Works of Graham Collier - Duncan Heining
Duncan Heining [+ ]
Duncan Heining writes about jazz, improvised music and 20th century composition. Since 1997 he has written for Avant Magazine, Record Collector, The Independent, The Independent On Sunday, Jazzwise, Jazz UK and the All About Jazz website. In 2010 Scarecrow Press published his biography of African-American composer and musical theorist George Russell, George Russell – An American Composer. He is also the author of Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers: British Jazz, 1960-1975 (Equinox, 2012).
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Studying in Boston; Herb Pomeroy; other students – Mike Gibbs, Gary Burton, Dusko Gojkovic, Paul Betjeman; recording and performing with the Berklee International Jazz Octet and Big Band; first homosexual experience; tour with the Jimmy Dorsey ‘ghost’ band; road accident on tour.