Gold, Doubloons & Pieces of Eight: the Autobiography of Harry Gold Thomas Lehr and singing along to the

and singing along to the radio

is confused by the climate of revolutionary sloganizing which masks the true situation: the rise of a new middle class

afraid of the outcome

December 2009 (photo: © Thomas Rösch)

Gold, Doubloons & Pieces of Eight: the Autobiography of Harry Gold Thomas Lehr and singing along to theSaxophonist and band leader Harry Golds wonderful memoir of the early years of jazz in Britain. Harry Golds vividly detailed reminiscences of his eight decades as a working musician conjure up lost worlds: Londons East End in the 1920s, the glamourous high society life of great dance bands in the interwar years, and life on the road with his own jazz band in the post war decades. His musical experiences stretch from seeing the Original Dixieland Jazz