Introduction

Keith Hounslow's wonderful autobiography in sound takes full advantage of new digital reproduction processes to reflect on a life in Australian Jazz that spans his Jazz Life from the 1940's to the 1990's. With help from others, he tells his story clearly and with a reference point to his life in and out of his preferred music --JAZZ! Now a printed book would do this too. We would work through Keith's life in a one dimensional sense, reading him from cover to cover, possibly filtering out some of the information, rapidly glossing over some of the words as many of us do without really experiencing the spirit of those times. This is what comes through so well in this audio record MY JAZZ LIFE 6 CD Set.