Presents the lifelong influence of Betty Carter's career and her music on the music world
The first scholarly study of John Lewis and the Third Stream music of the Modern Jazz Quartet
The first study to focus on jazz in postwar France, this book explores the ways that French musicians and critics received and remade an American music according to their own cultural concerns
A groundbreaking study of the reception of jazz among French-speaking black intellectuals between 1918 and 1945
The first authoritative biography of jazz great Tadd Dameron
A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong’s autobiographical practices
A revival of a classic oral biography of four nearly overlooked jazz giants
The story of one of the most influential and controversial jazz recordings of the twentieth century
The life and times of famed band leader, entrepreneur, and entertainer Jimmie Lunceford
The definitive biography of the great tenor saxophonist Ben Webster
An in-depth analysis of the music and life of a gypsy music legend
Explores a little-discussed yet truly hybrid American musical tradition lost between the canons of authentic jazz and classical music
A fascinating and insightful study of the development of New Orleans jazz and its effect on jazz history
The story of one of the most individual jazz stylists of his time
With a foreword by Joe Lovano, an oral biography of the preeminent alto saxophonist of cool jazz
The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century
The first biography of one of the most influential but unheralded musicians in jazz history
A selection of the best writings on jazz by André Hodeir, one of the world's most influential jazz critics
A new edition of the musical biography of jazz tenor saxophonist Lester Young, with a revised discography
One author's personal odyssey through the jazz scene in Japan