Rethinking Miles Davis

Roger Fagge is Associate Professor of History at the University of Warwick. His publications include The Vision of J.B. Priestley (2012), and with Nicolas Pillai, New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice (2017). Recent work includes, with Nicholas Gebhardt, an AHRC research network, 'Jazz and Everyday Aesthetics', which led to a jointly-edited special issue of Jazz Research Journal.

Nicolas Pillai is Assistant Professor in Creative and Critical Practice at University College Dublin. He is the author of Jazz as Visual Language: Film, Television and the Dissonant Image (2016) and a former editor of Jazz Research Journal. His AHRC project Jazz on BBC-TV 1960-1969 was the basis for the award-winning BBC Four documentary Jazz 625 Live!

Tim Wall is Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies in the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Studies at Birmingham City University. He is the author of Studying Popular Music Culture (2003, 2013), and, with

Sarah Raine and Nicola Watchman Smith, the co-editor of The Northern Soul Scene (2019). He has published dozens of articles on jazz, radio, and popular music studies. He is currently writing the history of Jazz on BBC Radio 1922 - 1972.