Alyn Shipton

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alyn Shipton
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Nov 24, 1953(1953-11-24)
Age	71
Birthplace	Guildford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Alyn Shipton Biography

Alyn Shipton is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on November 24, 1953 in Guildford, England, United Kingdom.

Shipton became interested in jazz in his youth and formally studied cello, but also played double bass in a school jazz band. He played both cello and bass in the West Surrey Youth Orchestra, and played in the first performance of John Dankworth’s “Tom Sawyer’s Saturday” commissioned for the Farnham Festival. After winning an open scholarship to read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he ran the university jazz club. During that time he played with many guests who appeared there, including George Melly. The trumpeter with Melly, John Chilton, dates Melly’s decision to go on the road with the Feetwarmers to their appearance with Shipton in Oxford in 1973. At Oxford, Shipton also wrote for the student magazine Isis and directed plays, including Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist. He had a keen interest in visual arts and was one of the authors of the catalogue of paintings in the collection of St Edmund Hall. He subsequently studied for his PhD (2004) in music at Oxford Brookes University.

On leaving university, Shipton became an editor at Macmillan Publishers, working on primary school books and teenage fiction. His first book length publication was an anthology of short stories on the theme of fantasy for John Murray (1982). For Macmillan he produced editions of secondary school English texts. During this time he played bass in the New Iberia Stompers, subsequently joining Sammy Rimington’s band and the group led by jazz traditionalist Ken Colyer. In the 1980s, he became the publisher of Grove’s Dictionaries of Music. As Music Publisher at Macmillan he established a series of oral histories of jazz musicians, including lives of Barney Bigard, Buck Clayton, Art Rollini and Bill Coleman. His own first book, a biography of Fats Waller was published in 1988. In 1987 he moved to Oxford to manage the reference publishing at Blackwell Publishers, also establishing the NCC Blackwell computer publishing imprint with the National Computing Centre in Manchester. He began broadcasting on the Oxford local radio station Fox FM in 1989, going on to join BBC Radio 3 the same year with a series based on his Waller biography. For six years he was a presenter on the BBC World Service’s Jazzmatazz, and was a regular contributor to (and then co-presenter of) the BBC Radio 3 series Impressions, which was mainly hosted by Brian Morton during its run from 1992 to 1998. In 2001 Shipton was named “Jazz Writer of the Year” at the British Jazz Awards. From 1998 to 2001 he presented the late night programme Jazz Notes for Radio 3, going on to introduce many editions of the documentary strand Jazz File. In 2003 he won the Willis Conover/Marian McPartland Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Broadcasting award from the Jazz Journalists’ Association. In 2010 he was Jazz Broadcaster of the Year in the UK Parliamentary Jazz Awards. From 2007 until 2012 he presented Jazz Library on BBC Radio 3, before taking over the long-running programme Jazz Record Requests in May from Geoffrey Smith. From 2016-2019 he was executive producer of BBC Radio 3’s new series “Jazz Now”. He also served as executive producer for Radio 3’s Sunday Morning classical show from 2012-2019.

Alyn Shipton Net Worth

Alyn Shipton is one of the richest Author from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alyn Shipton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Alyn Shipton (born 24 November 1953) is an English jazz author, presenter, critic, and jazz bassist.

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