Jazz Perspectives (Series)

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A wide ranging jazz series providing ground-breaking, in-depth, and insightful studies of the lives and works of jazz musicians. Autobiography, biography, musicology, history, cultural studies, and other adventures in jazz welcome.
Jazz Perspectives is also a journal, too. Go to the Journal's site.

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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

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

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

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

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

Lennie Tristano

His Life in Music

By Eunmi Shim
Subjects: Music, Jazz, American Studies, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The first biography of one of the most influential but unheralded musicians in jazz history

The André Hodeir Jazz Reader

Edited by André Hodeir & Jean-Louis Pautrot
Subjects: African American Studies, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A selection of the best writings on jazz by André Hodeir, one of the world's most influential jazz critics

Lester Young

Revised Edition

By Lewis Porter
Subjects: African American Studies, Music, Jazz, Biography
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A new edition of the musical biography of jazz tenor saxophonist Lester Young, with a revised discography

Jazz Journeys to Japan

The Heart Within

By William Minor
Subjects: Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

One author's personal odyssey through the jazz scene in Japan

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