Jazz

New Orleans is a kind of Mecca for jazz pilgrims, as Whitney Balliett once wrote. This memoir tells the story of one aspiring pilgrim, Clive Wilson...

Glorious Days and Nights is a personal account of the fifty-year career of jazz photographer Herb Snitzer, with a special focus on his years in New...

In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implicat...

Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse develops tools from psychoanalysis for the analysis of Ornette Coleman's discourse.In this psychoanalyti...

Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse develops tools from psychoanalysis for the analysis of Ornette Coleman's discourse.In this psychoanalyti...

Graham Colliers career in jazz lasted over five decades. He was a bassist, a band-leader, a composer, an educator and an author, who wrote extensiv...

An investigation and celebration of the origins of the world-renowned Latino musical samba-jazz movement Bossa Nova, They Shot The Piano Player cap...

Central to the development of abstract art, in the early decades of the 20th century was the conception (most famously articulated by Walter Pater)...

Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves th...

Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves th...

An in-depth exploration of the style and influence of Pat Metheny, a truly distinctive musical voice of our time. Guitarist and composer Pat Methen...

Just after World War I, jazz began a journey along America's waterways from its birthplace in New Orleans. For the first time in any organized way,...

Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as Mood I...

How To Play Jazz Saxophone is a fun and engaging introduction to jazz from composer and saxophonist Ned Bennett. Discover the exciting world of jaz...

The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whitema...

The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whitema...

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the mult...

The featured articles in this volume provide an overview of jazz studies writings from the 1990s to the present day, and each text engages with iss...

In this photographic collection, seven photographers who have built their artistic reputation documenting Cuban jazz over the years, bring together...