Thompson Leslie, Green Jeffrey:
Swing From A Small Island
The Story Of Leslie Thompson
Northway Publications (United Kingdom), 2009
Hardback, 220 pages
Size: 220x142 mm
ISBN: 9780955788826
ISBN-10: 095578882X
List price: £19.99
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Swing From A Small Island
Jamaican bandleader and trumpeter Leslie Thompson worked with all the most significant black British swing musicians of the 1930s, including the legendary Spike Hughes and Ken Snakehips Johnson, and performed in London through the Blitz. This autobiography reveals the many-sided realities of life Thompson experienced as a West Indian in Britain.
