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The Life and Music of Betty Carter
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
Making Jazz in Postwar France
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
Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945
A groundbreaking study of the reception of jazz among French-speaking black intellectuals between 1918 and 1945
The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron
The first authoritative biography of jazz great Tadd Dameron
Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz
A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong’s autobiographical practices
A revival of a classic oral biography of four nearly overlooked jazz giants
The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album
The story of one of the most influential and controversial jazz recordings of the twentieth century
Jimmie Lunceford and the Harlem Express
The life and times of famed band leader, entrepreneur, and entertainer Jimmie Lunceford
The Life and Music of Ben Webster
The definitive biography of the great tenor saxophonist Ben Webster
An in-depth analysis of the music and life of a gypsy music legend
Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz
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 Life and Music of Lee Morgan
The story of one of the most individual jazz stylists of his time
Conversations on the Improviser's Art
With a foreword by Joe Lovano, an oral biography of the preeminent alto saxophonist of cool jazz
The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991
The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century
His Life in Music
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
Revised Edition
A new edition of the musical biography of jazz tenor saxophonist Lester Young, with a revised discography
The Heart Within
One author's personal odyssey through the jazz scene in Japan