Jazz

• Home
  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer
  American composer, pianist and orchestra leader Duke Ellington was the first genuine jazz composer of truly international status. In this book Ken Rattenbury offers a thorough musical analysis of Ellington's works, assessing the extent to which Ellington drew on the black music traditions of blues ...
• The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz
  Do you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton Club? Have you ever wondered how old Miles Davis was when he got his first trumpet? From birth dates to gig dates and from recordings to television specials, Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler have left no stone unturned in their quest for ...
• The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
  The leading guide to recorded jazz, now extensively revised Music fans have been turning to this established reference through seven editions as a source of intelligent and insightful criticism. Fully updated to incorporate thousands of additional recordings, the eighth edition features artist bi...
• Blowing My Own Trumpet
  Kenny Ball is arguably the most successful jazz trumpet player this side of the Atlantic. His autobiography is told with all the style, wit, and passion that you would expect of this well-loved star. It includes wonderful stories of his life on the road with such giants of the music world as Louis ...
• Miles Beyond
  Based on new research, as well as exclusive, first-hand recollections by over 50 musicians, partners, producers and artists, Miles Beyond offers hundreds of never-before-revealed facts, insights and revelations about Miles's remarkable artistic and personal life. Readers will discover a new perspec...
• Faith in Time
  The first biography of one of the most influential singers in jazz, whose ethereal voice and uncanny phrasing have inspired performers from Nancy Wilson to Marvin Gaye to Frankie Valli. Born in Cleveland in 1925, "Little" Jimmy Scott lost his mother at age thirteen, the same year he was diagnosed w...
• Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington (1899-1974), composer and bandleader, was a largely self-taught pianist, influenced by jazz and ragtime performers. While working as a sign painter he began to play professionally, and in 1918 started his own band in his native Washington, D. C.. In 1923 he moved to New York City and...
• Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
  Ever hear of Charlie Parker? The great jazz saxophone player? If you have or if you haven't, it's okay. Look at this board book and you'll hear Charlie Parker; you'll hear music in your mind. "Be bop. Fisk, fisk. Lollipop. Boomba, boomba." Look. That's Charlie swinging and spinning all over the pag...
• Jazz on a Saturday Night
  The authors use bright colors and musical patterns that make music skip off the page, in this toe-tapping homage to many jazz greats. Learn about this popular music form and read a biography of each player pictured--and then hear each instrument play on a specially produced CD....
• God Bless the Child
  The song God Bless the Child was first performed by legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday in 1939 and remains one of her enduring masterpieces. In this picture book interpretation, renowned illustrator Jerry Pinkney has created images of a family moving from the rural South to the urban North duri...
• Sophisticated Ladies
  This handsome volume contains the stories of fourteen fabulous women, blues and jazz singers all. Their art reflected their backgroundsaoften small, poverty-ridden towns in the Southaand the influence of musicians who preceded them. Each singer adapted the culture of jazz and wove it into her own p...
• JAZZ ABZ
  In a swinging improvisation with poster artist Paul Rogers, Wynton Marsalis celebrates the spirit of twenty-six stellar jazz performers, from Armstrong to Dizzy -- and showcases the same number of poetic forms. A is for almighty Louis Armstrong, whose amazing artistry unfolds in an accumulative p...
• If I Only Had a Horn
  As a poor boy in New Orleans, where music was everywhere, Louis Arm-strong longed for a horn. "Orgill chronicles young Louis's love of music in words that sing. . . . This vibrant portrait of the Jazz great's youth is one children will return to again and again". --Publishers Weekly, starred review...
• Striders to Beboppers and Beyond
  Each book explores styles and techniques that were invented or refined by players on a particular instrument....
• Deep Down in Music: The Art of the Great Jazz Bassists
  Each book explores styles and techniques that were invented or refined by players on a particular instrument....
• Jazz Music
  Music is a powerful means of communication. Easy-to-follow text and colorful images combine to explain Jazz Music and help introduce musicians who helped make it famous. Also available as second-hand book from $41.00...
• Striders to Beboppers and Beyond: The Art of Jazz Piano
  Each book explores styles and techniques that were invented or refined by players on a particular instrument. Also available as second-hand book from $11.00...
• A Horn for Louis
  Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real horn. He didn't even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, Louis had a job. Every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing his tin horn and collecting stuff people didn't want. Then one day the junk wagon...
• Duke Ellington - Jazz Master
  Fulfills the standards: Culture, Time, Continuity, and Change, Individuals, Groups, and Institutions, Power, Authority, and Governance, Production, Distribution, and Consumption, Science, Technology, and Society, and Civic Ideals and Practices from the National Council for the Social Studies Curric...
• Louis Armstrong - Jazz Musician
  For Louis Armstrong, music was a way to express his emotions. Building on the ancient foundation of African music, he made jazz popular across America and around the world. His talent and spirit earned him the title 'Father of Jazz'....
• Morning Glory
  George Washington Plunkitt once dismissed municipal reformers as 'morning glories' who 'looked lovely in the mornin' and withered up in a short time, while the regular machines went on flourishin' forever, like fine old oaks'. Although this remark rings true for the Northeast in the days when Tamma...
• To A Young Jazz Musician: Letters From The Road
  In "To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music-and to leading a good life. Writing from the road "between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig," Marsalis pas...
• Steppin' On The Blues: The Visible Rhythms Of African American Dance
  This award-winning cultural history of black dance explores the meaning of dance in African-American life and the connections among music, song, and dance in African-American culture....
• Chicago Soul
• Jazz Greats
  This text is a sequence of biographical portraits of key jazz figures (whose innovatory work as improvisers ranks them with major composers), surveying important developments in the genre. Jazz was dubbed by Bernstein as the only original American art form. Its fascination lies both in its musical ...
• Armstrong
  This volume forms part of the Life and Times series of compact and accessible biographies which cover key political, literary and musical figures. This title is about the life and work of the jazz musician Louis Satchmo Armstrong (1900-71). Born in poverty and raised in an orphanage, Armstrong domi...
• Miles Davis
  Miles Davis (1926-91) was one of the great jazz musicians, bandleaders and composers. His output includes several of the most acclaimed and popular jazz albums, from the relaxed style of Birth of the Cool to the orchestral Sketches of Spain and the iconic Kind of Blue. And he never ceased to innova...
• Jazz In Black And White: The Photographs Of Duncan Schiedt
  "Jazz in Black and White" collects Duncan Schiedt's classic black-and-white photographs of some of the world's most famous jazz musicians. Each photograph is introduced by a brief biographical summary of the artist, along with a memoir about the photograph's creation that gives the reader a sense o...
• Marian Mcpartland's Jazz World: All In Good Time
  In this collection of musical portraits, jazz pianist and radio host Marian McPartland pays tribute to such beloved and legendary figures as Benny Goodman, Bill Evans, Joe Morello, Paul Desmond, Alec Wilder, Mary Lou Williams, and others. McPartland's reminiscences and anecdotes about these jazz gr...
• Music Musique: French & American Piano Composition In The Jazz Age
  "Music Musique" is a study of American and French composers active in the late 19th through early 20th centuries and the influence of jazz on their compositional styles. Starting with a look at the formation of American and French styles of composition, Meister discusses the jazz influence on Ameri...
• Jazzwomen: Conversations With Twenty-one Musicians With Cd (audio)
  Between 1995 and 2000, Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse interviewed dozens of women jazz instrumentalists and vocalists. "Jazzwomen" collects 21 of the most fascinating interviews. The participants discuss everything - their personal lives, musical training and inspirations, recordings, relations...
• Creation Of Jazz: Music, Race, And Culture In Urban America
• Rhythm-a-ning: Jazz Tradition And Innovation
  In a companion to his collections Riding on a Blue Note and Faces in the Crowd , Gary Giddins has assembled a mosaic of pieces that provide an essential guide to the jazz world. Moving with ease from sweeping surveys of jazz history to precise, vivid assessments of individual performers including T...
• It's Easy To Bluff Jazz Guitar
• Noise Orders: Jazz, Improvision, And Architecture
  In this lively book, David Brown locates jazz music within the broad aesthetic, political, and theoretical upheavals of our time, asserting that modern architecture and urbanism in particular can be strongly influenced and defined by the ways that improvisation is facilitated in jazz. Improvised mu...
• Ragtime
• Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, And The Invention Of Post Bop
  Focusing on one of the legendary trumpet players in jazz, Jeremy Yudkin's book examines Miles Davis' often overlook music of the mid-1960s with a behind-the-scenes study of the evolution of a new, post bop style. It spotlights Davis during an extraordinarily creative period when the artist struggle...
• Luck's In My Corner
  Hot Lips Page was a seminal figure in the history of jazz trumpet.Through the use of interviews, anecdotes and oral histories, author Todd Bryant Weeks pieced together Page's personal story. He has contacted dozens of people (many in their eighties and nineties), who knew Page personally, and ...
• Interaction, Improvisation, And Interplay In Jazz
  "Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Performance" offers a new and exciting way to listen to and understand jazz. When describing a performance, most jazz writers focus on the improvised lines of the soloist and their underlying harmonic progressions. This approach overlooks the basic...
• Jelly Roll, Bix, And Hoagy: Gennett Studios And The Birth Of Recorded Jazz
• Second Set
  With The Jazz Poetry Anthology, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the history of jazz poetry....
• Body And Soul: Jazz, Blues, And Race In American Film, 1927-63
  How the 'dark continent' of blues and jazz provided Hollywood with a resonant resource to construct and negotiate the boundaries of American cultural identity Writing in the late 1930s, New York journalist Joseph Mitchell observed: 'Except for the minstrel show, the strip act is probably America's ...
• Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz
  From a preeminent—and always controversial—jazz critic and intellectual firebrand comes the long-awaited collections of essential essays on the great music and performers of the jazz world....
• Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography Of Count Basie
  Count Basie (1904-1984), pianist, composer, and icon of big-band jazz, known for such classics as "Jumpin' at the Woodside," "Cherokee," and "One O'Clock Jump," recounts his life story to Albert Murray with all the charm and dry humor of two friends sitting a...
• Lester Leaps In: The Life And Times Of Lester "pres" Young
  The acclaimed biography of the legendary tenor "Lester Leaps In jumps off the page with authenticity and insight. The Prez was an amazing creator with a uniquely wicked sense of humor, and this book captures it all." —Quincy Jones "Twenty years in the making, this is the ...
• One O'clock Jump: The Unforgettable History Of The Oklahoma City Blue Devils
  This meticulously researched history of an iconic jazz band—the Blue Devils—from its founding in 1923 to its demise in 1933 shows its influence on the careers of its members Jimmy Rushing, Lester "Prez" Young, Oran "Hot Lips" Page, and Count Basie....
• Living With Jazz: A Reader Edited By Sheldon Meyer
  of Dan Morgenstern....
• Sax
  This pack contains a book and 4 CDs. The saxophone, named after its inventor, the Frenchman Adolphe Sax, began its all-conquering journey as a jazz instrument in the 1920s and is still omnipresent today. In Sax, photographer Giuseppe Pino portrays the most famous saxophonists, thus paying homage to...
• The Brothers
  First time in paperback: The first family of New Orleans music shares its life story.. Born to a music-loving family, the Neville brothers grew up immersed in the sounds and culture of New Orleans, and the blended rhythms of the city are reflected in their wide range of musical styles. The result, ...
• Satchmo: The Genius Of Louis Armstrong
  "A valuable, jubilant look at a great man and artist."-New York Times Book Review. Gary Giddins has been called "the best jazz writer in America today" ( Esquire ). Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz musician of the century. Together this auspicious pairing has resulted in Sa...
• As Serious As Your Life: The Story Of The New Jazz
  This work celebrates jazz with passion and conviction, evoking a revolutionary era that inspired generations of music. Tracing the roots of "new jazz" from 1960-1972 Wilmer dissects the musical careers of the famous names - John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Albert Ayler et al - and the less well-known ar...
• Harlem Of The West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era
  Billie Holiday singing at the New Orleans Swing Club. Dexter Gordon hanging out at Bop City. Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane all swinging through for gigs. Was this slice of jazz history in New York or perhaps New Orleans? No, this was San Francisco's Fillmore Distric...
• Giants Of Jazz
  A beautifully illustrated edition of Studs Terkel's timeless portraits of America's jazz legends, for readers of all ages. Studs Terkel's first book, Giants of Jazz, is the master interviewer's unique tribute to America's jazz greats, now available in an affordable paperback edition with the orig...
• Diary Of Jazz
• Mojo Triangle: Birthplace Of Country, Blues, Jazz And Rock 'n' Roll
  Mojo Triangle traces the origins of the music that came out of New Orleans, the Mississippi Delta, Memphis, Muscle Shoals and Nashville, and explains, often in the words of the artists themselves, the apocalyptic vision that gave birth to the music.Heavily illustrated with never-before-seen archive...
• Christmas Carols With Cd
• Jazz Life
  This is the sights and sounds of American jazz at a special best-seller price.In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted German musicologist Joachim Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz music. The result of their collaboration was an amazing collection of photographs and...
• Jazz For Dummies
  Includes a list of more than 100 recordings for your jazz collection The fun and easy way to explore the world of jazz Jazz is America's greatest music, but with over a century's worth of styles and artists, where do you begin? Relax This hep cat's guide delivers the scoop on the m...
• Jim Marshall/jazz
  An unexpected trove, Jim Marshall's portraits of the jazz greats are as wonderful as his legendary work with rock musicians (most recently enjoyed in "Jim Marshall: Proof"). The access his subjects allow him and their obvious ease around him give these photographs an unequalled intimacy. This portf...
• Louis Armstrong's New Orleans
  In the early twentieth century, New Orleans was a place of colliding identities and histories. Louis Armstrong was a gifted young man of psychological nimbleness; a dark-skinned, impoverished child, he grew up in an atmosphere of low expectations, Jim Crow legislation and vigilante terrorism. He al...
• Jazz: The Basics
  "Jazz: The Basics" gives a brief introduction to a century of jazz, ideal for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this important musical style. The heart of the book traces jazz's growth from its folk origins through early recordings and New Orleans stars; the big-band an...
• Jazz With Multimedia Companion Cd-rom
  The tenth edition of this trusted text takes students on an extraordinary musical journey through the changing styles and the fascinating history of jazz. With a strong emphasis on listening and an outstanding photo program, "Jazz" offers an insider's view of the most important music, artists, club...
• Duke Ellington And His World
  Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family, and friends, "Duke Ellington and His World" offers a fresh look at this legendary composer. The first biography of the composer written by a fellow musician and African-American, the book traces Ellington's life and career in...
• Concert Music, Rock, And Jazz Since 1945: Essays And Analytic Studies
  Modern musical-analytical techniques are applied to a wide range of Western music, disregarding barriers between different kinds of music. Topics discussed fall into three sections: compositional poietics (poietics being the pre-compositional activities of composer theorists); structuralist approac...
• Gil Evans: Out Of The Cool: His Life And Music
  Upon Gil Evans's death in 1988, Gary Giddins wrote 'Many considered him the greatest living American composer, period'. After his early years in California, Evans settled in New York City in 1946, where his apartment became a meeting ground for the greatest jazz innovators. The result was the 'Birt...
• Tommy Dorsey
  Celebrating the centennial of his birth, this is the definitive biography of legendary jazz giant Tommy Dorsey Swing has never gone out of style. It was the music the Greatest Generation danced to - and went to war to. And no musician evokes the Big Band era more strikingly than Tommy Dorsey, whose...
• Love My Jazz
  In Love My Jazz Giuseppe Pino presents portraits of all the great names from the international jazz scene since the 1960s. Fascinating pictures of Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Count Basie, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Dizzy G...
• Jazz: A History
  The first edition of "Jazz" took the history of jazz up to 1960. Now, in recognition of the developments in jazz study since then, Frank Tirro has rewritten and expanded this text to include many of the latter-day giants, such as Miles Davies, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis. The...
• Is Jazz Dead?: (or Has It Moved To A New Address)
  "Is Jazz Dead?" examines the state of jazz in America at the turn of the twenty-first century; a time when musicians themselves are returning to New Orleans, Swing, and Bebop styles, while the work of the '60s avant-garde and even '70s and '80s jazz-rock is roundly ignored. Stuart Nicholson's thoug...
• Dancing With De Beauvoir: Jazz And The French
  Live jazz arrived in France towards the end of the First World War. From the very start, it was received not only as a new form of music but as a fertile symbol of many other things...It was an embodiment of artistic freedom, it was modern, it was America (both as promise and threat), it was Africa...
• Tonight At Noon: A Love Story
  Tonight at Noon is a story of love between American opposites: she, a product of privilege, a Smith College graduate who worked as a journalist in Europe and in New York; he, an authentic jazz master, a brilliant, eccentric, difficult artist, a scion of Watts, Los Angeles, who would become one of A...
• Ask Me Now: Conversations On Jazz And Literature
  "Ask Me Now" explores the relationship between the language of music and the music of language with 20 conversations on jazz and literature. Writer, editor, and saxophonist Sascha Feinstein gathers a variety of artists, poets, musicians, fiction writers, essayists, playwrights, and record producers...
• Jazz And More
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• The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life And Times Of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards
  This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy's stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History ...
• Best Damn Trumpet Player
  A treasury of nostalgic interviews with Big Band era personalities....
• Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, And Redemption Of Jelly Roll Morton
  "Jelly's Blues" recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (ca., 18851941). A virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life personality, he composed such influential early jazz pieces as "King Porter Stomp" and "New Orleans Blues." However, by the late 1930s, he was nearly forgotten. In 1992, the...
• Kind Of Blue
  This acclaimed tribute to the most popular jazz album of all time is now available in a beautiful 50th anniversary edition, complete with a new afterword by Ashley Kahn. Featuring transcriptions of the unedited session tapes; in-depth interviews with musicians; freshly discovered Columbia Records f...
• The Nat Hentoff Reader
  More than 20 years of Nat Hentoff's dazzling and provocative writings on jazz, politics, and American thought. From the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, and civil rights to jazz, blues and country music, Nat Hentoff has written about American life for decades, in the Atlantic Monthly , the New Yo...
• Listen To The Stories: Nat Hentoff On Jazz And Country Music
  Here is Nat Hentoff's deeply felt exploration of jazz, blues, country, and gospeland the musicians who bring the music to life. Hentoff has not only loved music all his life, he has lived it by being friends with many of the musicians he writes about in this collection. Hentoff poignantly describes...
• Jazz Composition And Arranging With Cdrom
  It is assumed that the reader has already completed...
• Take A Girl Like Me
  Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By her mid-twenties, she'd acquired two husbands and two children, and life wasn't going to plan...Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant, impossible, charismatic and kind, he was irresistible. Sex, drugs and jazz were a heady combination for the...
• Crazy Rhythm: My Journey From Brooklyn, Jazz, And Wall Street To Nixon's White House, Watergate, And Beyond...
  Leonard Garment was a successful Wall Street attorney when, in 1965, he found himself arguing a Supreme Court case alongside his new law partner—former Vice President Richard Nixon. It was the start of a friendship that lasted more than thirty years. In "Crazy Rhythm," which the "New York Tim...
• Slowing Down
  George Melly is 79 nudging 80. You'll probably think, 'That's not old these days'. And it's true, George is still swinging and singing, fly-fishing, flirting, and for now just playing at senility. But it's not as if he were the Queen Mother. He walks very slowly nowadays. He's losing control over h...
• Tropical Truth: A Story Of Music And Revolution In Brazil
  "Caetano is likely to be remembered as one of the '60's great composers, period."-New York Times Book Review. Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz guitar, avant-jazz, and electronic music-a...
• Remembering Bix: A Memoir Of The Jazz Age
  As Nat Hentoff says, "Hearing Bix for the first time was like waking up to the first day of spring." Bix has always inspired such acclaim, for he was an unmatched master of the cornet. Ralph Berton was privileged enough to have been a fan--and younger brother of Bix's drummer--just as Beiderbecke's...
• Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography
  A legend on both the clarinet and the soprano saxophone, one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz, Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) played with such fellow jazz legends as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and Jelly Roll Morton. Here is his vivid story written in his own word...
• Dizzy
  a ragdoll a postcard from Marrakech a rainbow-stripe hat a dreamcatcher a silver necklace with a pink stone in Dizzy's mum left when she was small. But every year, on her birthday, something arrives in the post - a present or a card with her mum's loopy writing on. Dizzy has kept everything. But th...
• It's About That Time: Miles Davis On And Off Record
  Here is quite simply one of the most original books about a jazz musician ever published—a biography-cum-discography that focuses in turn on fourteen major albums recorded by Miles Davis, using them as a jumping off point for an illuminating discussion of the turbulent life and work of the "...
• Jazz In The Bittersweet Blues Of Life
  This takes readers across America and into the heart of jazz. The thrill of sitting in a club or concert hall hearing jazz being made is familiar to most fans. But what if you could immerse yourself in the world of the musician, where creating and performing is a profound task, and yet as routine a...
• Lady Day: The Many Faces Of Billie Holiday
  A lavishly illustrated biographical essay on the peerless Billie Holiday, drawing on never-before-published material.. "Billie Holiday deserves a biography in which her musicianship isn't overshadowed by the tragic events of her life. O'Meally has written that book," says Entertainment Weekly about...
• Billie Holiday: Wishing On The Moon
  Certainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, "Lady Sings the Blues." "Now, finally, we have a definitive biography," said "Booklist" of Donald Clarke's "Billie Holiday," "by ...
• Louis Prima
  "This is the first paperback edition of the only biography of Louis Prima, one of the most underrated jazz musicians and entertainers of the twentieth century. In a career that spanned four decades, Prima infused the grit and grace of Dixieland jazz with swing and big band sounds, the first whiffs ...
• Jazz
  The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for The Civil War and Baseball, Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music--jazz. Born in the black...
• Soul Music
  This 13th novel set in Discworld tells the story of Death's granddaughter, who inherited the job and grew to enjoy it. Amd of Imp the Bard, who strove to make his fortune in a rock band, and who was so unlucky that all his dreams came trueStock Availability:...
• Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings
• Like Young: Jazz, Pop, Youth And Middle Age
  The latest collection of essays by peerless music and culture writer Francis Davis, who "has long combined Gary Giddins's musical acuity with Whitney Balliett's literary flair"-Boston Phoenix. Modern jazz and rock 'n' roll, both of which were once identified with youthful insurrection, have reached...
• Beneath The Underdog: His World As Composed By Mingus
• Blues Legacies And Black Feminism: Gertrude "ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, And Billie Holiday
  Women's blues have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that broke through the constraints of middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rai...
• Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide
  Collectors of jazz on vinyl know how difficult it can be to find pristine copies of original classic jazz recordings, and ever-changing market values can make pricing those albums even more difficult. With this fantastic, updated 2nd edition, collectors will be able to accurately price records usin...