Adventures in British Jazz Philanthropy: The John Thurlow interview (part one)

One hectic weekend in September 2023, cameraman and graphic design wizard Mark Case and I went on a field trip from Belfast to Yorkshire - to gather three interviews potentially for excerpting in Barry Devlin's proposed BBC NI documentary 'Legends of Harper', about my activities in vintage music chronicling and suchlike. Those interviews were with rock legend Andy Powell, folk legend Martin Carthy and British jazz archivist and not-for-profit 'Jazz In Britain' label mogul John Thurlow.
In the event, only a glimpse of the trip made it into Barry's documentary (a soundcheck jam with Andy Powell). I felt that the interview with John - about his interest in British jazz becoming a passion project to retrieve and archive broadcasts and audience recordings of great and overlooked artists from the 60s and 70s and to release many of these for the benefit of posterity, the artists/estates involved and the listening delight of thousands - was so insightful that it deserved to be seen in full.
Mark Case has very kindly edited the interview into three parts, trimming out only a few irrelevant tangents (from me) and adding in images of album covers, photos and vintage press cuttings here and there - from myself and also courtesy of John and fellow vintage music label mogul and archivist Richard Morton Jack. We hope you enjoy it!

[@dannyjarvis8093]

Interesting chat thanks very much guys :)

[@neilstanley3402]

As an avid fan of 1960/70's British jazz, all I can say is thank you John Thurlow!