{"id":2520,"date":"2020-06-27T19:47:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.cohds.com\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:41:19","slug":"john-gilmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/john-gilmore\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gilmore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegh92q-c71b41b2038f879d301e112cba77d4ac\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-kaegh92q-c71b41b2038f879d301e112cba77d4ac .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-c71b41b2038f879d301e112cba77d4ac '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock member_tagline'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\">Affili\u00e9 communautaire<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0\">\n.flex_column.av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegkhpa-5876c1a8c96f00486a70081a7ea93705\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-5876c1a8c96f00486a70081a7ea93705 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-5876c1a8c96f00486a70081a7ea93705 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kaegkhpa-5876c1a8c96f00486a70081a7ea93705 av-styling-no-styling avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-6857 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-6857 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/John-300x300.jpg\" alt='' title='John'  height=\"300\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/John.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/John-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/John-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/John-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56\">\n.flex_column.av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-a4bd548fb113ac38bd4baec72f7092ab '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>John Gilmore was born in Montreal, trained as a journalist in the UK, and worked as a newsroom editor at The Montreal Gazette, The Canadian Press, and Radio Canada International. His early work as a writer was in journalism and non-fiction. He is the author of two ground-breaking books on the history of jazz in Montreal: Swinging in Paradise: The Story of Jazz in Montreal [in French translation: Une histoire du jazz \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al] and Who\u2019s Who of Jazz in Montreal: Ragtime to 1970. His research materials for the books became the founding collection in Concordia University\u2019s research archive of Quebec jazz and nightlife. John also writes and translates fiction. His books include a poetic novel Head of a Man, a hybrid novel The Broken Notebooks, and a translation of Quebec film-maker Bernard \u00c9mond\u2019s novel 20h17, rue Darling. John has also worked as a scholarly editor, a music programmer for CBC Radio, and an English teacher. In 2013, while based in Berlin, he became a visiting researcher at the COHDS and began a multi-year independent oral history research project on the social history of jazz and free improvised music in Montreal from the late 1960s on, picking up where his earlier books left off. Moving back to Montreal, John became a community affiliate. His oral history book, Mon pays, c&rsquo;est la musique : L&rsquo;amorce de l&rsquo;improvisation libre au Qu\u00e9bec, was published in 2025. 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