Geraint Ellis – författare

Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future expansion of other renewable technologies.

Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future expansion of other renewable technologies.

World renowned jazz trombonist Jack Threlfall helps his younger colleague (who narrates) kick the drug habit in 60's Paris, and in so doing is responsible for producing the happiness high-peak of the younger man's life; his marriage to Stella.We fast-forward about 30 years. The two musicians meet up again. It's pay-back time. But Jack is now a changed man, so paying back will be difficult … Even so, our narrator can cope quite readily with such issues. He'll have something up his sleeve no doubt; a made-up solution.For him, life is a game of musical-chairs. It's a game he excels at, for while others are petrified by the thought of not being able to find a chair to sit on when the music stops, he knows he has his method to fall back on. He's well prepared to play this game in all those moments of all those years that lie ahead, until one day that is …'Thus we spin around us infinitely fine filaments and construct for ourselves a system'Virginia WolfCopyright © 2012 Geraint Ellis.This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental

If you are a musician, a non-musician, a jazz-fan, a social historian or a researcher of American music, then this book will prove invaluable to you, for it contains a series of entertaining face-to-face discussions between the author and leading performers of the day, from: Jimmy McPartland – who in 1924 at the age of 17 replaced Bix Beiderbecke in the Wolverines Orchestra in New York and afterwards shared a room with Bix, through to Dizzy Gillespie, one-time colleague of Charlie Parker, with whom he created and led the Bebop movement of 1940's Harlem.'It is no accident that some of the greatest artists and composers were the 'rebels' least shackled by the traditional rules of their art' Glen Wilson, Professor of Psychology, Times Higher Education Supplement, 1st November 2012The FountainheadLouis Armstrong was great, not only because he single-handedly created trumpet style in jazz, but because – without the hindrance of formal training, he made his instrument produce sounds never before imagined or anticipated. In his hands, the trumpet came of age and abandoned for all time its traditional role of symphonic punctuator.'What I wanted to play wasn't in the books … … I had to go and get it' Dizzy Gillespie, in conversation with the author at The Ronnie Scott Club, London, 9th August 1976

Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future expansion of other renewable technologies.