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George Hulme Author

George Hulme (1930-2017), a contributor of discographies, articles, and photographs to periodicals, including Discophile, Matrix, Jazz Journal, Jazz Monthly, and Coda. He was editor of Matrix Jazz Record Magazine from 1958 to its closure in 1976 and, for more than 20 years, of Red Bank Special, the magazine of the International Count Basie Society. He was a major contributor to Jazz Records 1942- (Jepson edition) and 1962- (Raben edition). Outside jazz, he was a technical writer and publisher. Bert Whyatt (1920-2013) bought his first jazz record at the age of 16. The author of Muggsy Spanier: The Lonesome Road (A Biography and Discography), Jazzology Press (1995), and, with Sonny McGown, The Jump Records story: A discography, IAJRC (2006), he contributed over 800 articles to jazz magazines between 1952 and 2013. Some of his life outside jazz is told in Jazz: So Much In My Life, The Grimsay Press (2014).