Jazz

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The Bastard Instrument

A Cultural History of the Electric Bass

By Brian F. Wright
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, American Studies, Music Theory, Music Composition, Jazz
Series: Tracking Pop

Centering the electric bass in popular music history

Open the Door

The Life and Music of Betty Carter

By William R. Bauer
Subjects: History, American History, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

Presents the lifelong influence of Betty Carter's career and her music on the music world

Charlie Parker

His Music and Life

Revised Edition

By Carl Woideck
Subjects: Music, Jazz

A fresh take on Charlie Parker’s artistic evolution and major achievements as a jazz improviser, in time for his centennial

Jazz from Detroit

By Mark Stryker
Subjects: Music, Jazz, Michigan and the Great Lakes

Mark Stryker celebrates Detroit’s profound influence on jazz from the mid-20th century through the present day.

Uncharted

Creativity and the Expert Drummer

By Bill Bruford
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, Music Composition, Jazz
Series: Tracking Pop

Renowned rock drummer Bill Bruford analyzes the creative processes of drumming, using his own— and other famous musicians’— expertise and insights

The Jazz Republic

Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany

By Jonathan O. Wipplinger
Subjects: German Studies, Music, Jazz, Ethnomusicology, History, German History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century

Hazel Scott

The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC

By Karen Chilton
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, Jazz

The first biography of an important but overlooked African American pianist, singer, actor, and civil-rights advocate

John Lewis and the Challenge of "Real" Black Music

By Christopher Coady
Subjects: Music, Jazz, African American Studies
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The first scholarly study of John Lewis and the Third Stream music of the Modern Jazz Quartet

Blues, How Do You Do?

Paul Oliver and the Transatlantic Story of the Blues

By Christian O'Connell
Subjects: African American Studies, Music, Jazz, Race and Ethnicity

Examines the role of black American music abroad in the post–WWII era through the lens of one of the period’s most prolific and influential blues scholars, Paul Oliver

After Django

Making Jazz in Postwar France

By Tom Perchard
Subjects: History, European History, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

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

Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism

Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945

By Jeremy F. Lane
Subjects: Music, Jazz, Ethnomusicology, History, European History
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A groundbreaking study of the reception of jazz among French-speaking black intellectuals between 1918 and 1945

Dameronia

The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron

By Paul Combs
Subjects: African American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The first authoritative biography of jazz great Tadd Dameron

Music Is My Life

Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz

By Daniel Stein
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Media Studies, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A groundbreaking study of Louis Armstrong’s autobiographical practices

Four Jazz Lives

By A.B. Spellman
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A revival of a classic oral biography of four nearly overlooked jazz giants

Head Hunters

The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album

By Steven F. Pond
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The story of one of the most influential and controversial jazz recordings of the twentieth century

Highbrow/Lowdown

Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class

By David Savran
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, Jazz, American Studies, Class Studies

The culture clash that permanently changed American theater

Rhythm is Our Business

Jimmie Lunceford and the Harlem Express

By Eddy Determeyer
Subjects: Music, Jazz, African American Studies, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The life and times of famed band leader, entrepreneur, and entertainer Jimmie Lunceford

Someone to Watch Over Me

The Life and Music of Ben Webster

By Frank Buchmann-Moller
Subjects: African American Studies, Biography, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The definitive biography of the great tenor saxophonist Ben Webster

The Music of Django Reinhardt

By Benjamin Givan
Subjects: Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

An in-depth analysis of the music and life of a gypsy music legend

Ellington Uptown

Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz

By John Howland
Subjects: Music, Jazz, African American Studies, American Studies
Series: Jazz Perspectives

Explores a little-discussed yet truly hybrid American musical tradition lost between the canons of authentic jazz and classical music

New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History

By Bruce Boyd Raeburn
Subjects: American Studies, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A fascinating and insightful study of the development of New Orleans jazz and its effect on jazz history

Delightfulee

The Life and Music of Lee Morgan

By Jeff McMillan
Subjects: African American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The story of one of the most individual jazz stylists of his time

Haunted Heart

A Biography of Susannah McCorkle

By Linda Dahl
Subjects: Music, Biography, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Jazz

The secret life and tragic death of a great American songbird

Lee Konitz

Conversations on the Improviser's Art

By Andy Hamilton
Foreword by Joe Lovano
Subjects: Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

With a foreword by Joe Lovano, an oral biography of the preeminent alto saxophonist of cool jazz

The Last Miles

The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991

By George Cole
Subjects: African American Studies, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century

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