Inside Courtyard JAM

“We have one of the best selections of Jazz CDs and Jazz Books in the country”

JAM helmsman John Biscombe is heavily involved with Jazz and is one of the founder members of the Cheltenham JAZZ Club . John has an extensive knowledge of all the jazz luminaries and can help you track down that elusive recording of Thelonious Monk on CD or perhaps offer his reflections of his own past motoring exploits whilst showing you an array of books on Ferrari's, Bugattis and other such names. Many of these publications are not to be found in high street bookshops.

Sharing space on these bookshelves are many books on JAZZ and the characters who perform it. Many of them have led amazing lives and their stories and lives have been written and documented. John says "We have built up one of the best selections of Jazz books in the country. So you can not only listen to them but also read about them".

Good art and good jazz continue to share a progressive open-ended ness and as ever, mean different things to as many people. Jazz can be Glenn Miller's big band, Sinatra, the James Bond theme, a quintet playing in a Smokey Parisian bar, vintage Cleo Lane or new favourite Diana Krall. Whatever your taste in music you should check out the carefully chosen range of jazz on CD and extensive range of books about Jazz at COURTYARD JAM.

Open from 10.00am to 5.30pm Monday to Saturday a visit to Courtyard JAM is certainly a worthwhile experience and if you don't come away with an exceptional album by the likes of Charlie `Bird' Parker, Sonny Criss, Mingus, Warne Marsh, Brew Moore or Kenny Dorham, you may well go home with paints, brushes, canvas and an ambition to fulfill!

We still have an extensive range of Vinyl, many of which have long disappeared from the record catalogues.

A JAZZ HEAVEN
COURTYARD JAM
are now in
COURTYARD BOOKS
Tarlings Yard, Church Road, Bishops Cleeve,
Cheltenham, GL52 8rn. Tel: 01242 674335
www.courtyardbooks.co.uk, email contactus@courtyardbooks.co.uk