After Django

Tom Perchard

• Hardcover | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz--that quintessentially American music--in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape w... Lees meer

Dameronia

Paul Combs

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most signific... Lees meer

Music Is My Life

Daniel Stein

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and the... Lees meer

John Lewis and the Challenge of Real Black Music

Christopher Coady

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and the Challenge ... Lees meer

New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History

Bruce Boyd Raeburn

• Hardcover | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• New Orleans Style tells the tale of the recognition of New Orleans jazz as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American ... Lees meer

Delightfulee

Jeff McMillan

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• One of the most individual stylists of his time, trumpeter Lee Morgan began his professional career in Philadelphia at age fifteen. At eighteen, after... Lees meer

Ellington Uptown

John Howland

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• The story of the African American contributions to the symphonic jazz vogue of the 1920s through the 1940s. During the early decades of the twentieth ... Lees meer

Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism

Jeremy F Lane

• Hardcover | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• Jeremy F. Lane's Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism is a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-wa... Lees meer

Four Jazz Lives

A B Spellman

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• A revival of a classic oral biography of four nearly overlooked jazz giants Lees meer

The Music of Django Reinhardt

Benjamin Givan

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• " The Music of Django Reinhardt is an impressive contribution to the field of jazz studies. The book offers a penetrating view into the music of one o... Lees meer

Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism

Jeremy F Lane

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• Jeremy F. Lane's Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism is a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-wa... Lees meer

Open the Door

William R Bauer

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• Betty Carter's lifelong influence on the music world is unparalleled. Her contributions to music as a jazz singer, composer, arranger, and teacher hav... Lees meer

John Lewis and the Challenge of Real Black Music

Christopher Coady

• Hardcover | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and the Challenge ... Lees meer

Lee Konitz

Andy Hamilton

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• "Meticulously researched, detailed and documented, this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adv... Lees meer

The André Hodeir Jazz Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• First trained as a violinist, then as a composer, André Hodeir began writing about jazz in the 1940s. As editor-in-chief of the French magazine Jazz H... Lees meer

Rhythm Is Our Business

Eddy Determeyer

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• In the 1930s, swing music reigned, and the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra was the hottest and hippest attraction on the black dance circuits. Known for it... Lees meer

New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History

Bruce Boyd Raeburn

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• New Orleans Style tells the tale of the recognition of New Orleans jazz as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American ... Lees meer

Head Hunters

Steven F Pond

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• ". . . [a] very readable dissection of all the different ways in which Herbie Hancock's 1973 album Head Hunters broke the mould. . . . An entertaining... Lees meer

Lennie Tristano

Eunmi Shim

• Hardcover | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• "In Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music , Shim has provided a comprehensive biographical and analytical account of one of jazz's most important and mos... Lees meer

Lester Young

Lewis Porter

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• Praise for Lester Young : ". . . a schematic of unparalleled insight and detail." --- Down Beat "A monumental work." ---Dizzy Gillespie ". . . a major... Lees meer

Dameronia

Paul Combs

• Hardcover | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most signific... Lees meer

Lee Konitz

Andy Hamilton

• Hardcover | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• "Meticulously researched, detailed and documented, this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adv... Lees meer

Someone to Watch Over Me

Frank Buchmann-Moller

• Paperback | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• For a half century, Ben Webster, one of the "big three" of swing tenors-along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young-was one of the best-known and most... Lees meer

Music Is My Life

Daniel Stein

• Hardcover | Engels | Jazz Perspectives
• Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and the... Lees meer