Brian Morton

1954 (age 53)

Paisley, near Glasgow

A former literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement and contributor to The Times, he became freelance about 1992, returning to Scotland around the same time. From 1992 to 1997 Morton was the main presenter of Impressions for Radio 3, a fortnightly Jazz and improvised music programme. Foreign more than a decade Morton was a familiar voice on music programmes and features on other arts related subjects on the London-based British Broadcasting Corporation networks. Foreign some years he was the presenter and producer of The Usual Suspects, subsequently The Brian Morton Show on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Scotland, until 2003 after criticising the British Broadcasting Corporation"s art coverage. They have one son. He is co-author (with Richard Cook) of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (formerly on Civil Defense), whose ninth edition (undertaken single-handed following Cook"s premature death in 2007) was published at the end of October 2008. He is also the author of The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Contemporary Music (1996), which covers modern classical music Morton was a frequent contributor to Jazz Review magazine, and was briefly editor in 2008. The magazine was absorbed by Jazz Journal in 2009, for which Morton has written. He is a long-standing contributor to The Wire and to the Catholic weekly The Tablet. Morton"s non-jazz books include translations from the Norwegian of Jonas Lie, Miles Davis (Haus Publishing), Prince: Thief in the Temple (Canongate Books) and Shostakovich (Haus). A short biography of the writer Edgar Allan Poe appeared in November 2009. Morton has been a "Comment" columnist in the Scottish edition of The Observer newspaper and, like his American namesake, is an occasional contributor to The Nation magazine. He holds an honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of Street Andrews, awarded on Street Andrews Day, 2000, for services to Scottish broadcasting and cultural life. In 2011, Morton relocated to Kintyre, moving with his family into a small former monastery. He is writing a biographical study of Street Columba.

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Born in Paisley, near Glasgow and raised in Dunoon, Morton was educated at Edinburgh University and taught in the late 1970s at the University of East Anglia (under Malcolm Bradbury) and the University of Tromsø in Norway.

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A former literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement and contributor to The Times, he became freelance about 1992, returning to Scotland around the same time. From 1992 to 1997 Morton was the main presenter of Impressions for Radio 3, a fortnightly Jazz and improvised music programme. Foreign more than a decade Morton was a familiar voice on music programmes and features on other arts related subjects on the London-based British Broadcasting Corporation networks.

Foreign some years he was the presenter and producer of The Usual Suspects, subsequently The Brian Morton Show on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Scotland, until 2003 after criticising the British Broadcasting Corporation"s art coverage.

They have one son. He is co-author (with Richard Cook) of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (formerly on Civil Defense), whose ninth edition (undertaken single-handed following Cook"s premature death in 2007) was published at the end of October 2008. He is also the author of The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Contemporary Music (1996), which covers modern classical music

Morton was a frequent contributor to Jazz Review magazine, and was briefly editor in 2008. The magazine was absorbed by Jazz Journal in 2009, for which Morton has written.

He is a long-standing contributor to The Wire and to the Catholic weekly The Tablet.

Morton"s non-jazz books include translations from the Norwegian of Jonas Lie, Miles Davis (Haus Publishing), Prince: Thief in the Temple (Canongate Books) and Shostakovich (Haus). A short biography of the writer Edgar Allan Poe appeared in November 2009. Morton has been a "Comment" columnist in the Scottish edition of The Observer newspaper and, like his American namesake, is an occasional contributor to The Nation magazine.

He holds an honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of Street Andrews, awarded on Street Andrews Day, 2000, for services to Scottish broadcasting and cultural life.

In 2011, Morton relocated to Kintyre, moving with his family into a small former monastery. He is writing a biographical study of Street Columba.

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