Jazz books

The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo “Ink” Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin...  Read More >>

Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through...  Read More >>

Strategies for recovering the Africanist roots of jazz dance in teaching and practice. Decolonizing contemporary...  Read More >>

Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through...  Read More >>

This collection of articles engages with issues that are central to the changing discourse of jazz in popular culture....  Read More >>

Electro swing is a relatively recent musical style and scene which combines the music of the swing era with that...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all...  Read More >>

A New York music journalist goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of the young...  Read More >>

The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. The role of jazz as a catalyst...  Read More >>

The full transcript of the historic 2011 interview for the Smithsonian Oral History Project. Fully annotated and...  Read More >>

The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in...  Read More >>

The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in...  Read More >>

Jazz Revolutionary: The Life & Music Of Eric Dolphy examines the recordings and collaborations of a true American...  Read More >>

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A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance...  Read More >>

The life of the unparalleled purveyor of the Great American Songbook, Marian McPartland, is celebrated in this engrossing...  Read More >>

This is a captivating, vital portrait and spiritual biography of the pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary...  Read More >>

This is a captivating, vital portrait and spiritual biography of the pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary...  Read More >>

Catherine and Darius Brubeck’s 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education....  Read More >>

Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other...  Read More >>

Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other...  Read More >>

Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other...  Read More >>

Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other...  Read More >>

“Pulse is essential to life. Everything we do as humans is influenced by the phenomenon of rhythm.” The Hildebrandt...  Read More >>

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