John Fenton is a music journalist and a professional member of the Jazz Journalists Association. He fell in love with improvised music, and poetry at a very young age and the rhythms of both are always with him. He fled school in order to obtain a better education and has been an obsessive reader all of his life. He is well travelled with an open minded world view; having worked at everything from ditch digger to secretary to various members of the New Zealand Parliament. He is married with three children and five grandchildren. He has written liner notes and provided photographs for Jazz albums. He also writes a popular Jazz Blog titled JazzLocal32.com