Music: Styles & Genres

This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader. Jazz: A Beginners Guide is a lively and highly accessible int...

The Beatles and Duke Ellingtons Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Thomas Brothers delivers a portrait...

When Derek Coller decided to pay tribute to his late friend - the author, biographer, discographer and researcher, Bert Whyatt - he looked for a co...

This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just the capital of ...

The Definitive Jazz & Blues Encyclopedia, now fully updated from the illustrated edition, is the ultimate guide to two musical styles that have...

The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-...

Over forty years have elapsed since the death of the British jazz legend Tubby Hayes and yet his story still continues to captivate. Beginning as a...

Although Frank Zappa died over 20 years ago, he continues to be regarded as an iconic figure in 20th century culture. In 1973 he famously said Jazz...

This is the first book about the life of jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey CBE (1926-2013). Drawn largely from his personal diaries and some of...

Easy Jazzin About Standards Piano presents 15 favourite jazz songs especially arranged by Pam Wedgwood for elementary level pianists. Online audio ...

The Jazz Piano Player: Collection features sixteen classic jazz standards such as My Funny Valentine, Summertime, I Get A Kick Out of You, and is s...

In this volume author John Corcelli reveals Zappa's roots as a musician from his diverse influences to his personal life. We also learn more abou...

It''s a misty night in 1950s New York. A silver Rolls-Royce screeches to a stop at the neon-lit doorway of a 52nd Street jazz club. Behind the whee...

Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in 1001 Best Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings that e...

It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful...

Dave Liebman is one of the leading forces in contemporary jazz. Prominently known for performing with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, he has exerted c...

This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-...

Jazz trombonist Chris Barber formed his first band in the late 1940s, but it is the band that he has led from 1954, after parting company with trum...

The result of an international event celebrating the second UNESCO International Jazz Day held on April 30 2013 at the University of Padova, Italy,...

This is a stunning overview of more than 20 years of images from noted jazz photographer Esther Cidoncha. Esther Cidoncha''s camera has been presen...

Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised m...

The pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the worlds most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose career h...

A best-selling anthology of over 400 covers from one of the most acclaimed record labels of all time. Complete compliation of the original Blue N...

This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicia...