563:: "Music's not a plaything; it's as serious as your life." The first account of the revolutionary "free jazz" and its practitioners, it also documents women's experiences in relation to the "new jazz" in African-American communities, and deviates from the "masculinist rule of exclusion". Presenting sexual politics in the world of jazz, Wilmer unearthed sexual politics in music criticism itself. In her work, she presents a "superb descriptive journey that moves the reader through a number of seemingly incommensurable communities simultaneously.... This is the vision and possibility of community when the struggle toward freedom recognizes the intersections of sexual difference, gender, and sexuality in addition to race and class, as the basis for improvisational practices".
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a white woman to be concerned with something that Black people did meant to experience additional pressure." Through
African-American music Wilmer was able to immerse herself in realities that would have stayed undiscovered had she remained within the margins of her comfort-zone. For her, these experiences were fundamental and life-changing. Her perseverance in this difficult sphere and her devotion to the music led her to a path of self-discovery and personal growth, and the understanding of "the potential for personal change that exists in us all." Through her writing about music, Wilmer was able to provide a voice to a transatlantic, multicultural, and multiracial dialogue, delving into a "part of history, or might very soon be."
588:, is partly inspired by Wilmer's book, according to founder John Cumming: "I recommend that book to anybody interested in the evolution of jazz in the late 20th century. ...that was a book that really made me think. It was a mixture of Val's book, and also that in the eighties 'serious' had become a piece of contemporary slang. People used to come up and say, 'That's a really serious piece of work.
581:: "During the 1960s and '70s 'counterculture', much of which became a massive cash register, Val Wilmer fixed her strobe lights onto a musical and political landscape that really did in fact run counter to the culture. A shame so few — blacks and whites — were paying attention at the time. But her book, and the work it documented, remains as serious, and necessary, as ever."
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their own future options: "Little girls, we are often told, want to grow up to be ballet dancers ... I don’t think it ever crossed my mind to consider the usual female options, resolutely opposed as I was to anything that smacked of feminine pursuits and did not involve going places, being and doing."
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and others. She attended concerts accompanied by her mother, who believed her too young to go on her own. Wilmer states that it was a “tribute to mother's tolerance" being allowed to explore her interests so freely, especially during a time when little girls were often informed of the limitations of
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wrote: "With this book Val has made the courageous decision to tell it like it was. The result is a social history of music like no other, and a no-nonsense account of the development from birth to maturity of a dynamic woman whose documentary arts deserve to be reappraised as a whole in the light
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in May 1959 when she was still only 17. Reflecting on how this piece originated, Wilmer states: "I was an inveterate letter writer, that's how the break with Jesse Fuller came about, me writing to him out of the blue. Woe betide any
American musician who was foolish enough to have a contact address
1694:, Vol. II, No. 2 (August 2019), pp.121–154: a biography of the black British musician and entrepreneur Victor Robert (Bob) Barclay (1911–1987), with an examination of his place in the history of the British traditional jazz revival and the situation of a musician of colour in British society.
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published somewhere — I'd find it and fire off a letter. The amazing thing was really, I mean really, that so many would reply! These great musicians and characters from a black culture on the other side of the world writing back to this young suburban white girl in
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Since 1959, she has interviewed hundreds of musicians, written previews and criticism. Her work has been cited and used in research for many books, articles and films, including several biographies of major musicians. Her early interviews with
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noted: "The emphasis is on the people in these fourteen interviews, the personalities behind the jazz, their moods, ambitions, influences....The author observes well and the profiles are short and sharp with high notes for the buff."
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Her essays and obituaries are notable for their ability to subtly reveal the underlying inequities that Black artists and women faced in the music industry, often using their own words. In a 15 July 1960 obituary in
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Aware of the earliest records of jazz and blues, Wilmer began to write about jazz and other
African-American music, focusing on the political and social messages of the music. Her first article (a biography of
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Although Wilmer's forte is jazz and blues, she is versed in the larger movements in music history and reveals her versatility across genres when, for instance, she writes about how
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as a journalistic exercise and not a fan, yet eventually she "would come to admire Albert Ayler as the last major jazz visionary".
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half a century ago, she finds the essence of the human spirit." The photobook published to acompany the exhibition, entitled
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British musicians and women musicians in its Oral History of Jazz in Britain.
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2220:"Art, photography & architecture: Wilmer, Val (12 of 13). Oral History of British Photography"
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2412:"'Fela Kuti was always in his pants': legendary music photographer Val Wilmer's greatest shoots"
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2338:"Val Wilmer photographs published in new book and shown at solo, Barbican and Tate exhibitions"
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2188:"London Is The Place For Me | 4: African Dreams And The Piccadilly High Life"
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The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue
2782:"Jazzwise's Val Wilmer to be featured on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs"
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1743:"Free jazz research and guerrilla scholarship: an interview with John Gray"
1578:"Books on Jazz — As Serious as Your Life: Classic Val Wilmer Book Reissued"
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The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue
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2713:"The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews | Val Wilmer in Conversation"
2520:"Parliamentary Awards : Winners ...and winners on the night"
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1690:'Black Bob': his B-flat bombardon and the Yorkshire Jazz Band',
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Mama Said There'd Be Days like This: My Life in the Jazz World
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Award for Career Excellence in Photography at the 24th annual
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Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This: My Life in the Jazz World
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Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This: My Life in the Jazz World
1968:"Val Wilmer (1941-), Photographer, jazz historian and writer"
1943:"Val Wilmer, Kenneth Terroade In A Flat In Putney, July 1971"
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Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain
2839:, Martin Marix Evans, ed. (New York: St. James Press, 1995).
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Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain
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On 2 November 2023, a solo exhibition of her work, entitled
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2799:"Desert Island Discs | Val Wilmer, writer and photographer"
1532:"Firing the Canon: Multiple Insularities in Jazz Criticism"
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Thelonious Monk: the Life and Times of an American Original
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Lester Leaps In: the Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young
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In 2024, she was chosen to be featured as a "castaway" on
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2757:"BLUES & BEYOND with Cerys Matthews & Val Wilmer"
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Wilmer, Val, "Corinne Simpson: Taking Care of Business",
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by Rex Harris. Wilmer became entranced by recordings by
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Wilmer, Val, "Beuford Smith: In the Humane Tradition",
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The Face of Black Music: Photographs by Valerie Wilmer
3101:"Val Wilmer – Journalist, historian and photographer"
3079:"'Space is the Place': Val Wilmer Photographs Sun Ra"
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Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959–1990
2648:, BBC Radio London, 94.9 FM | Digital, 12 March 2018.
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Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990
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Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990
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2326:, Worldly, Wicked and Wise Gallery, November 2023.
1847:"'Black Chronicles II' at Rivington Place, London"
918:As Serious as Your Life: The Story of the New Jazz
319:are cited in Douglas Henry Daniels's biography of
3150:"Val Wilmer interviewed by John Fordham Oct 2020"
3018:---. "Roswell Rudd and the Chartreuse Phantasm".
2981:"How We Met: Lauderic Caton and Louis Stephenson"
2950:'I'm Happy as All Hell that the Man Took My Songs
2018:Wilmer, Val, "Roy DeCarava: An Uncommon Beauty",
3140:"Val Wilmer Is Seriously As Serious As Her Life"
2579:"Val Wilmer Is Seriously As Serious As Her Life"
2005:Wilmer, Val, "Barboza: The Music of Ourselves",
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3107:"Blues Britannia – Val Wilmer's photo memories"
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3006:Coda: The Journal of Jazz and Improvised Music
3004:---. "Spirits Rejoice: Albert and Don Ayler".
2599:, BBC Radio 3, "Sunday Feature", 4 March 2018.
2266:"Jazz breaking news: Ronnie Scott’s Covers Up"
2093:"Memories of Hoppy: Interview with Val Wilmer"
2060:Wilmer, Val, "Milt Hinton: a Musical Vision",
1392:Coda: The Journal of Jazz and Improvised Music
2553:"The Wire Salon: An Audience with Val Wilmer"
1228:, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005, p. 23.
1172:, London: The Women’s Press, 1989, pp. 14–15.
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2943:, 27 December 1980. Vol. 55: pp. 16–17.
2939:---. "Gilmore and 'Trane: The Sun Ra Link".
2156:Wilmer, Val, "Harlem's Picture-Taking Man",
1403:Wilmer, Val, "Jimi Hendrix: An Experience",
1325:Wilmer, Val, "Texas Trombone: Henry Coker",
850:the Arts Council of Great Britain Collection
806:Blue Moments, Black Sounds – A Retrospective
3022:, Issue 249, November 2004: pp. 28–31.
2927:, 5 February 1977, Vol. 52: pp. 8, 44.
1881:"Essay: ‘Blackamoors’ and the British Beat"
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3133:"Masters of Jazz Photography — Val Wilmer"
2895:(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007).
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2898:Trynka, Paul; photographs by Val Wilmer.
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626:Other documentation and archival projects
3211:21st-century British women photographers
3191:20th-century British women photographers
3138:Lee, Karen (Weekend Family Music Hour),
3117:Jazz Diary / Jane Richards on Val Wilmer
2613:Sunday Feature: A Portrait of Val Wilmer
2432:. Art Council Collection. Archived from
2064:, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1991; obituary,
1514:"Monk on Monk as told to Valerie Wilmer"
993:Sunday Feature: A Portrait of Val Wilmer
973:In 2009, Val Wilmer was honoured with a
695:. Her photographs were exhibited at the
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3072:Tangents: The Home of Unpopular Culture
3047:, Vol. 16, no. 7, The Photo Issue 2009.
2997:---. "The First Time I Met the Blues".
2936:, 15–21 September 1978, pp. 14–15.
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2121:, 22 November 1992, pp. 8–9, 12–13, 15.
2043:Wilmer, Val, "Through a Lens, Darkly",
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1041:In 2020, Wilmer became a Patron of the
649:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
259:("Empty Bed Blues") and the singing of
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2626:"Val Wilmer book and documentary ahoy"
2410:Cartwright, Garth (21 November 2023).
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3135:, Jerry Jazz Musician, 17 April 2015.
3068:"They Made Magic. Part 2: Val Wilmer"
3001:, September 1995. 22: pp. 84–85.
2893:Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State
2384:Williams, Richard (3 November 2023).
1619:Agovino, Michael J. (15 March 2018).
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1260:Wilmer, Val, "Earle Warren's Story",
1213:Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State
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2990:---. "Jimi Hendrix: An Experience".
2430:"Art Council Collection, Val Wilmer"
1273:Wilmer, Val, "The Lee Young Story",
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3041:"Jazz and Blues and Blues and Jazz"
2508:"Val Wilmer — Deep Blues 1960–1988"
2358:Wright, Matthew (6 November 2023).
2249:"Ronnie Scott's tribute to founder"
2117:Wilmer, Val, "Early Days of Rage",
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1598:Patterson, Ian (5 September 2019).
771:With Maggie Murray, Wilmer founded
597:Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This
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3206:21st-century English women writers
3201:21st-century English women artists
3196:21st-century British photographers
3186:20th-century English women writers
3181:20th-century English women artists
3176:20th-century British photographers
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2856:Gannon, Robert. "Wilmer, Valerie",
2026:, 22 January 1988; "Real People",
793:Wilmer's work was featured in the
701:Jazz Seen: The Face of Black Music
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2842:Fischlin, David, and Ajay Heble.
2609:"7 Candid Photos of Jazz Legends"
1845:Maraj, Varala (20 October 2014).
1795:"Oral history of jazz in Britain"
1741:Crépon, Pierre (September 2019).
1686:A recent example is Wilmer, Val,
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2994:, February 1994: pp. 38–40.
2985:The Independent on Sunday Review
2902:(New York: Da Capo Press, 1997).
2858:The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
2686:Kaufman, Paul (9 October 2020).
2119:The Independent on Sunday Review
1709:The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
1600:"Val Wilmer: Dues And Testimony"
1329:, October 1962, vol. 15, no. 10.
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766:London is the Place for Me no. 4
636:The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
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2780:Witlock, evin (23 January 2024)
2577:Lee, Karen (15 February 2018),
2360:"Val Wilmer looks back on jazz"
2336:Flynn, Mike (30 October 2023).
1773:"Val Wilmer contributions ODNB"
1576:Seibert, Fred (27 April 2018).
2987:, 7 February 1993: p. 61.
2923:---. "Rock and Roll Genius" .
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2832:(Detroit: Cengage Gale, 1980).
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2969:, March 1986: pp. 84–86.
2642:"Listed Londoner: Val Wilmer"
2308:"Val Wilmer | The Photo Room"
2091:Blake, Adam (4 August 2015).
1996:, No. 61, August 1977. p. 41.
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1642:"Interview with John Cumming"
1640:Iverson, Ethan (March 2019).
1364:Wilmer, Val, "Monk on Monk",
1316:, New York: Free Press, 2009.
1303:, Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
1026:In 2019, Wilmer received the
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3113:, taken by Val Wilmer), BBC.
2867:(Westport: Greenwood, 1991).
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2099:. The Estate of John Hopkins
1945:. Victoria and Albert Museum
1923:. Victoria and Albert Museum
1463:Hoyt, Satch (23 July 2019).
1377:Wilmer, Val, "Kitty Grime",
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2813:Sources and further reading
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3034:Jazz Journal International
2872:The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
2837:Contemporary Photographers
2624:Colin (20 January 2018),
2597:"A Portrait of Val Wilmer"
2222:, British Library, Sounds.
1992:"The Unretouched Woman" ,
1905:The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
1379:Jazz Journal International
1290:, New York: Da Capo, 1976.
862:Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
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1264:, August 1960, pp. 11–12.
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251:, a history of jazz, and
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122:British African-Caribbean
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1711:(2 ed.). Macmillan.
1299:Daniels, Douglas Henry,
1277:, January 1961, pp. 3–5.
1193:Wilmer 1989, pp. 21, 46.
975:Parliamentary Jazz Award
780:Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
603:Wilmer's autobiography,
3036:, 2007: pp. 18–19.
3029:, 2005: pp. 24–26.
3015:, 2003: pp. 12–15.
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2490:As Serious As Your Life
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1868:"Val Wilmer Collection"
1407:, February 1994, p. 38.
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2886:Encyclopaedia of Blues
2233:"Raissa Page obituary"
1665:Archer, Robyn (1990).
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1242:Wilmer, 1989, p. xiii.
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977:for Services to Jazz.
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1368:, 3 June 1965, p. 58.
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454:Wilmer's first book,
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2436:on 19 September 2015
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1921:"V&A Val Wilmer"
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1251:Wilmer 1989, p. xiv.
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