A celebrated jazz writer offers fascinating portraits of friends he’s known during a lifetime in jazz For more than half a century, jazz writer and lyricist Gene Lees has been the …
An engaging personal account of the jazz scene in Paris in the ’80s and ’90s In his Beat-like jaunt through the Parisian and European jazz scene, Mike Zwerin is not unlike Jack …
A dual biography of two great innovators in the history of jazz. One was black, one was white—one is now legendary, the other nearly forgotten. In Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman …