Neil Oram pronounced that Oram was the worst behaved boy in the whole history of the school. This was after Oram had organized a couple of mass rebellions and refused to be caned. In his second year a fellow 'rebel' pupil, Paul Eva, introduced Oram to modern jazz. Oram has recounted how the moment Eva played him Gerry Mulligan's ‘Walking Shoes’, instantly his life was changed. Soon, via a primitive record player and earphones in his father's shed, Oram discovered the art of Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and Charlie Mingus. New very sharp modern
Jazz Review holding company, which changed ownership, absorbed "Jazz Review" around April 2009. It was revived as "Jazz Journal" at the end of April. Direct Music was no longer involved in the publication. A later California-based magazine also titled "The Jazz Review", edited by Ken Borgers and Bill Wasserzieher, appeared in 1991-1992, with cover stories on Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charlie Haden and other artists. Jazz Review Jazz Review was a Scottish jazz magazine, founded in 1998 by a former editor of "The Wire" and jazz writer Richard Cook and Roger Spence of the talent management agency Direct Music Limited of Edinburgh,