{"id":26632,"date":"2025-04-05T23:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T22:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26632"},"modified":"2025-04-05T23:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T22:47:44","slug":"book-review-labyrinth-richard-morton-jack-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26632","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REViEW: Labyrinth, Richard Morton Jack, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"603\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4182-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4182-1.jpg 603w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4182-1-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stars_10_five-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26531\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stars_10_five-1-2.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/stars_10_five-1-2-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a very<em>, very<\/em> beautiful book.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m no expert on Brit Jazz. And even this terrific tome prob\u2019 won\u2019t change that, on its own. But I bought it for several reasons: it\u2019s simple aesthetic appeal, first and fivemost; to learn more about the evolution of Jazz, on these Septic Isles of ours; and, perhaps &#8211; time and funds permitting &#8211; to allow me to build a little collection of some of this music?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"894\" height=\"557\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4183-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4183-1.jpg 894w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4183-1-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4183-1-768x478.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Endpaper memorabilia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"894\" height=\"608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4185-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26532\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4185-1.jpg 894w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4185-1-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4185-1-768x522.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">There are some terrific covers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m British, and I love and have even played quite a lot of jazz. So exploring the work of fellow jazz enthusiasts and musicians, this side of The Pond, seems quite natural. That said, as a consumer of mostly American jazz (and related forms), I have &#8211; like many \u2018over here\u2019, quite possibly? &#8211; pursued those interests in my own little bubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"285\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4186.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26529\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4186.jpg 285w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4186-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The author.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very, very beautiful book. I\u2019m no expert on Brit Jazz. And even this terrific tome prob\u2019 won\u2019t change that, on its own. But I bought it for several reasons: it\u2019s simple aesthetic appeal, first and fivemost; to learn more about the evolution of Jazz, on these Septic Isles of ours; and, perhaps &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOOK REViEW: Labyrinth, Richard Morton Jack, 2024&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6Vy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27488,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26632\/revisions\/27488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}