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Chris Parker
Chris Parker is a freelance editor/proofreader whose professional connection with jazz dates back to a stint in the 1980s as commissioning editor for the Quartet Books jazz list and publisher of Wire magazine.
During the 1990s he also introduced many jazz programmes for Radio 3 and contributed biographical articles to reference books such as the Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music and The Rough Guide to Jazz.
He has written about the music for several specialist publications including Jazz Review and Jazzwise, and for the mainstream press (the Independent, the Daily Telegraph and The Times).
His current berth as reviewer of CDs, books and gigs for the Vortex website, however (unlike some of the above), allows him to write as much as he likes about whatever he pleases, and has even provided him with a home for a humorous SF novel, New Planetary Blues, satirising various aspects of contemporary arts culture
New Planetary Blues
New Planetary Blues set 300 or so years in the future, in the New Planetary Confederation, a "Star Trek"-style interplanetary society which, while it has sorted out most of the practical problems "resource shortages, inter-communal strife etc. "that resulted in the near-demise of Old Earth, has a whole set of new problems specific to the Brave New World that has been created in its stead.
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