Tony Whyton

Professor of Jazz Studies

Tony Whyton is Professor of Jazz Studies. His critically acclaimed books Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album (Oxford University Press, 2013) have sought to develop cross-disciplinary methods of musical enquiry. As an editor, Whyton published the Jazz volume of the Ashgate Library of Essays on Popular Music in 2011 and continues to work as co-editor of the Jazz Research Journal (Equinox). In 2014, he founded the new Routledge series ‘Transnational Studies in Jazz’ alongside BCU colleague Dr Nicholas Gebhardt. Gebhardt and Whyton also edited The Cultural Politics of Jazz Collectives: This Is Our Music (Routledge) in 2015, a collection that explores the ways in which musician-led collectives offer a powerful model for rethinking jazz practices in the post-war period.

From 2010-2013, Whyton was Project Leader for the ground-breaking HERA-funded Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities project, where he led a consortium of 13 researchers working across 7 Universities in 5 countries. He is currently the Project Leader for the transnational research project Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals.

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Research

Publications

(i) Books

Whyton, T., Gebhardt, N. & Rustin, N. (eds.), The Routledge Companion to New Jazz Studies [in negotiation]

Gebhardt, N. & Whyton, T. (eds.), The Cultural Politics of Jazz Collectives: This Is Our Music! (New York: Routledge, 2015)

Whyton, T., Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)

Whyton, T. (ed.), Jazz [Library of Essays on Popular

Music] (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011) 544pp

Whyton, T., Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) [paperback published 2013]

(ii) Chapters in books

Whyton, T., 'Seeking Resolution: John Coltrane and the audio visual' in Heile, B. et al (eds), Watching Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, in press)

Whyton, T., ‘Brilliant Corners: The Development of Jazz in Higher Education’ in Papageorgi, I and Welch, G (eds.), Advanced Musical Performance: Investigations in Higher Education Learning [SEMPRE Studies in the Psychology of Music] (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), 21-31

Whyton, T., ‘Crosscurrents: the cultural dynamics of jazz’, in Knauer, W. (ed.), Darmstädter Jazz Forum (Darmstadt: Jazz Institut Darmstadt, 2014), 165-174

Whyton, T., ‘Song of Praise: Musicians, Myths and the “Cult” of John Coltrane’ in Duffett, M (ed.), Popular Music Fandom: Identities, Roles and Practices (New York: Routledge, 2014), 97-114

Whyton, T., ‘Europe and the New Jazz Studies’ in Cerchiari, L., Cugny, L., and Kerschbaumer, F., (eds.), Eurojazzland (Northeastern University Press, 2012), 366-380.

Whyton, T [trans. V. Cotro], 'Four for Trane: le jazz et la voix désincarnée', in: Cotro, V (ed.), John Coltrane: L’oeuvre et son empreinte (Outre Mesure: Paris, 2011) 149-164

Whyton, T., ‘The Changing Discourse of Jazz as Popular Music’ in Whyton, T. (ed.), Library of Essays on Popular Music: Jazz (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011), xi-xxiii

Whyton, T., ‘Four for Trane: Jazz and the Disembodied Voice’ in Whyton, T. (ed.), Library of Essays on Popular Music: Jazz (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011)

Whyton, T., ‘Acting on Impulse! Recordings and the Reification of Jazz’ in Dogantan-Dack, M. (ed.), Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections (Middlesex University Press, November 2008), 155-171

(iii) Articles in refereed journals

Single-authored

Whyton, T., ‘Jazz Research in Britain’ Jazzforschung/Jazz Research 42, (November 2010), pp.131-146.

Whyton, T., ‘Four for Trane: Jazz and the Disembodied Voice’, Jazz Perspectives (October 2007) - Vol.1 No 2, pp.115-132. ISSN: 1749-4060.

Whyton, T., ‘Birth of the School: discursive methodologies in jazz education’, Music Education Research (March 2006) - Vol.8 No.1, pp.65-81. ISSN: 1461-3808.

Whyton, T., ‘Telling Tales: witnessing and the jazz anecdote’, the source: challenging jazz criticism (vol. 1, pp.115-131) and Jazz Research Journal [Online], Volume 1 Number 1 (Equinox Publishing, 1 March 2004) ISSN: 1753-8637.

Collaborative publications

Bruckner-Haring and Whyton, T. (eds.), Rhythm Changes: Historical Overviews of Partner Countries (Graz: Institute for Jazz Research, 2013)

Bruckner-Haring and Whyton, T. (eds.), Rhythm Changes: Statistical Overviews of Partner Countries (Graz: Institute for Jazz Research, 2013)

Goh, F with Whyton, T., ‘Strength in Numbers: A Study of Europe Jazz Network’ (2011), (http://www.europejazz.net/strength-numbers)