Mark Berresford

Mark Berresford is a writer, researcher, purveyor of rare and collectable 78 rpm records, record producer, and editor of VJM's Jazz & Blues Mart, the world's oldest jazz and blues record trading magazine - www.vjm.biz (though he hastens to add he only started editing it in 1991!). His main musical interest is syncopated music from the 1890s to the early 1930s and he has produced and written liner notes for several CDs of early jazz, ragtime, and proto-jazz. Mark's latest book, That's Got 'Em! The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman was recently published by the University Press of Mississippi, for which Mark received the 2011 Award For Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research by the Association of Recorded Sound Collections. In 2010 his liner notes for the Rivermont CD "The Happy Six, Dance-O-Mania: Harry Yerkes and the Dawn of the Jazz Age, 1919-1923," was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of "Best Album Notes." When not involved with music Mark has a passion for the history of 1920s British motor racing, especially the legendary Welsh Land Speed Record holder J.G. Parry Thomas. Mark lives in Derbyshire, England with his partner Laura, along with a dog, several hens and a semi-wild cat.