The American jazz music scene of the 1940s heavily influenced the music making and bands in which Jim Munro played. Milt Jackson, Art Tatum, John Coltrane, Anita O’ Day, Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Quartet were legend. John Dankworth and fellow Scot and artist/jazz player Alan Davie also explored a multidisciplinary approach to creativity. This ground breaking new thinking of the 1950s formed part of a musical wave that inspired Jim and contemporaries. Matisse had already explored music with his famous artist’s book of Jazz Prints in 1947 and experimental music was influencing visual artists across the globe.
The Jim Munro Combo
Recorded by Tom Renouf in Musselburgh, Scotland in 1958. Jim Munro, artist and musician, picked some of Scotland's top musicians to play in his combo, in and around Edinburgh and Musselburgh.