Jazz

"I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant." So said Miss Peggy Lee. Albert Einstein adored her; Duke Ellington dubbed her "the Queen." With her platinum …

Dave Brubeck's Time Out ranks among the most popular, successful, and influential jazz albums of all time. Released by Columbia in 1959, alongside such other landmark albums as …

The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks …

An in-depth history of jazz criticism, from the 1920s to the present day, examines the contributions of Leonard Feather, Martin Williams, Whitney Balliett, Dan Morgenstern, Gary …

The Mercer Stands Burning, the groundbreaking collection of poems by John Pietaro, is "for New York", as he says in the dedication. These amazing poems are influenced by Jazz and …

Jazz Play Along: Volume 174 - Tin Pan Alley allows learners to master the art of improvisation while playing along to some of the best loved jazz tunes of all time.Suitable for use …

What is jazz? How does it differ from other kinds of music? To what extent is it an important subject for thinking about aesthetic questions? Philosophy of Jazz is among the first …

Taking inspiration from a class room assignment and John Coltrane's interpretation of Mongo Santamaria's Afro Blue, Earth, Wind, Water, & Fire is a jazz composition for sextet …

In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton’s band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, …