Jazz

***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment' IRISH INDEPENDENT'...

The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz contributes to the expansion and diversification of our understanding of the jazz traditio...

A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to birth of the genre itse...

The photographs of William Claxton define the essence of cool. - Jason Ankeny (AllMusic) Claxton's innovative choices and airy style, which he...

Ella Fitzgerald was one of America's greatest jazz singers. This volume is as complete a discography of her recorded songs as currently seems po...

The way rhythm is taught in Western classrooms and music lessons is rooted in a centuries-old European approach that favors metric levels within a ...

In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hamptons band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found th...

Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, but the results of animal tests were so unre...

Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and...

Ornette Colemans career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great De...

Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at...

From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty b...

As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just left the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the ...

Reveals the importance of the jazz craze in France between the two world wars and the French construction of jazz as a black music - an exoticiza...

The Jazz Piano Player: Night And Day  is an essential resource for all jazz pianists, featuring 17 classic jazz standards, arranged by John Kember....

This collection includes Leonard's classic photographs of the greats of jazz: from Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Dexter Gordon to Frank Sinat...