Music: Styles & Genres

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

Set against the drama of the Great Depression, the conflict of American race relations, and the inquisitions of the House Un-American Activities Co...

As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he ...

At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for eleven years, until ...

A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call jazz arose in late ni...

Lilian Terry has lived music. As a performer, she has shared the stage with Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. She cofounded the European Jazz Federa...

Birdland was a legendary nightclub in New York City and, from 1949 to 1965, was the scene for the greatest jazz music and musicians in the world. T...

This is the first book dedicated to Elgorts Jazz portraits and the list of names it includes constitutes a veritable pantheon of jazz greatness. F...

A personal, firsthand look at many of jazzs greatest performers from the 1960s to the1980s in over 350 captivating black-and-white photographs ...

The year 1917 was unlike any other in American history, or in the history of American music. The United States entered World War I, jazz burst onto...

What was the first jazz record? Are jazz solos really improvised? How did jazz lay the groundwork for rock and country music? In Why Jazz, author a...

Stan Kenton (19111979) formed his first full orchestra in 1940 and soon drew record-breaking crowds to hear and dance to his exciting sound. He con...