Jazz

Up-Grade! Jazz Piano Grades 1-2 is guaranteed to breathe new life into your piano playing. The varied pieces in this lively collection are demonstrated on the online audio and …

With New Orleans Suite, Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written …

If you want a closer look into what happened with Miles Davis' music in the 1980's, this is the book for you.10 years ago I planned an updated Danish version of my dissertation …

The jazz pianist discusses his life and career, from his birth in Texas, to his rise to international fame and his involvement in politics and business.

This biography examines the life of the West Indian singer-pianist Leslie Hutchinson who achieved international stardom and riches in the 1920s and 1930s.

Ragtime, the jaunty, toe-tapping music that captivated American society from the 1890s through World War I, forms the roots of America’s popular musical expression. But the …

It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest bass player in the history of jazz indeed, some might even regard it as understatement, for the hurricane power of …

WINNER: 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title AwardAnalyzes two groups of "e;musical novels"e; -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including …

Gene Lees is probably the best jazz essayist in America today, and the book that consolidated his reputation was Singers and the Song, which appeared in 1987. Now this classic …

Between 1972 and 1987, freelance teacher and music journalist Roland Baggenæs conducted a series of interviews with jazz musicians for CODA magazine. Upon recently re-discovering …