Jim Godbolt first emerged on the British jazz scene as unofficial
manager of George Webb's Dixielanders in the late 1940s. Throughout
the trad boom he was an agent and club manager, and his story also
encompasses the pop revolution of the early sixties when,
uncharacteristically, he enjoyed a brief taste of success as agent
of the Swinging Blue Jeans. In 1971, Godbolt retired from the music
business in order to become a writer. His memoirs are packed with
hilarious anecdotes and accurate portraits of British jazz stars
such as George Melly, Sandy Brown, Humphrey Lyttelton and Ronnie
Scott. With his renowned humour and insight, he recalls his years
as an electricity meter reader, exiled from the jazz world and
struggling for recognition as a writer. The final chapters chart
his return to eminence in British jazz, becoming by dint of
stubborn application a published author and editor of "Jazz" at
Ronnie Scott's.
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