Jazz

Examines John Coltrane's late period and Miles Davis's Lost Quintet through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photography Living...

He penned songs such as Witchcraft and The Best Is Yet to Come (signature tunes for Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett respectively) and wrote suc...

In Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms ...

A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musicians /> />Brassroots Democracy ...

In Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms ...

What is jazz? How does it differ from other kinds of music? To what extent is it an important subject for thinking about aesthetic questions? Philo...

In 1994 Brad and Paige Holmes opened a small, live-music venue in the bohemian suburb of Melville in Johannesburg. They called it Bassline, which v...

In The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography Teófilo Espada-Brignoni analyzes the autobiographies of New O...

for SAB and piano, with optional bass and drum kit A highly original and effective concert setting of the Latin Missa brevis in which the various ...

An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division. The editors and contributors to The Im...

An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division. The editors and contributors to The Im...

What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But...

Thomas Fats Waller was a legendary stride pianist, a wildly entertaining comedic singer, and the composer of such classic melodies as Honeysuckle R...

An introduction to jazz and how to listen to it Written by active jazz musician and jazz historian Mark Gridley, the Concise Guide to Jazz was cre...

From Coltrane to Davis, Fitzgerald to Armstrong, Jazz Legends Alphabet is the quintessential A to Z of the smoothest, coolest, hippest cats to have...

Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, ...

Tariq is beset by danger on the streets and by conflict at home. Music is his only consolation. When he forms a new friendship with the volatile bu...

Birds of Fire brings overdue critical attention to fusion, a musical idiom that emerged as young musicians blended elements of jazz, rock, and funk...

One of the greatest artists our country has is Benny Golson. He is not only a great musician, but an original and fabulous composer. He is inventiv...

In a piano factory tucked away in Richmond, Indiana, Gennett Records produced thousands of records featuring obscure musicians from hotel orchestra...

In this remarkable book, Steven Feld, pioneer of the anthropology of sound, listens to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of jazz players in Ghana. Som...

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...

Discover Pam Wedgwoods exciting world of jazz piano! How to Play Jazz Piano is a fun and simple introduction for young players with a basic knowled...

The Jazz Life of Dr. Billy Taylor: America's Classical Musician is the autobiography of the legendary jazz ambassador whose work spans more than si...

Fantasia hazards a listening walk through seashells, telecommunication networks, and cosmic vibrations, to learn something new about how we sound. ...

Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the Hi-de-ho chorus of Minnie the Moocher, Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and so...

An occasion to appreciate Dexters resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social transformation.Angela Y. Davis, political activist...

The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo Ink Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational produce...

The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo Ink Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational produce...

This book reclaims for Wales the history and culture of a music that eventually emerged as jazz in the 1920s, its tendrils and roots extending back...