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John L Walters

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As seen in: Eye Magazine, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), Entertainment Weekly, Reason, New Hampshire Public Radio, BD Outdoors, Panel Building and Systems Integration
Jazz & conversation. Alan Kitching’s biographer. Former Guardian columnist. ✒️ Editor: Eye, Pulp. European, producer, composer @Landscape_band

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John L Walters’s Biography

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John L. Walters edits and co-owns Eye, the international review of graphic design.
He also writes about jazz and world music for newspapers, magazines and blogs.

John L Walters’s Journalist Portfolio

Maria Schneider – just the 18 of us

Maria Schneider – just the 18 of us

Maria Schneider is one of the great inspirational figures of the contemporary jazz scene - not just for her m…

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Burger, fries, no logo

Burger, fries, no logo

With ‘nothing to show and nothing to say’, Ben Stott’s ‘anti-branding’ helped turn the Byron restaurant chain…

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Brian Eno's Apollo | Science Museum, London

Brian Eno's Apollo | Science Museum, London

This multimedia performance pulled together musical strands that rarely touch, let alone intertwine: devised …

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Barack, Marvin and John. And Miles

Barack, Marvin and John. And Miles

Now we have a world leader who looks like a visionary jazz musician

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The Sea Board

The Sea Board

British designer Roland Lamb has created a new musical instrument. Tactile, intuitive to use, and highly expr…

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Come to Type Tuesday: Punches to pixels

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By John L Walters Verified
| Eye Magazine Verified
Friday, 12:00pm 6 March 2026 Buy your tickets for Type Tuesday 10.03.26 John L.
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Day Tripper — when The Beatles entered the battle of riffs

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By John L Walters Verified
| Financial Times Verified
This article has been amended to reflect the fact that The Beatles went into the studio three days after recording ‘Drive My Car’, not as...
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Eye Magazine | We made this: Baskerville’s Teardrop Explodes

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By John L Walters Verified
| Eye Magazine Verified
John Morgan’s Baskerville’s Teardrop Explodes is an unabashed and unironic love letter to print. Morgan, who died of a brain tumour on 2 September 2025, aged 52, described the books in his library as his ‘muses’ – mystifying objects of admiration and adoration. The texts that accompany each item, set alongside calm spreads and covers photographed by Ed Park, reveal that Morgan did not claim to understand fully such books, that his relationship with them was ‘superficial’.
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