Jazz, Blues

Ray Brown: His Life and Music is the first full-length biography of Ray Brown, one of the most outstanding practitioners of bass playing in jazz music. Brown’s career spans the most popular and creat …

Trumpeter and composer Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014) was one of the most enigmatic and influential musicians in recent memory. His instantly recognisable sound was a driving force within every major inno …

Music of Initiative: Julian Joseph on Jazz is for any musician interested in jazz, no matter what your instrument or level of experience. In Music of Initiative Julian Joseph shares his insight into …

Delve into the Mind of a Jazz Legend Are you ready to transcend your musical boundaries? Experience the unparalleled genius of Joe Henderson through the eyes of renowned author and educator Olegario …

Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Re …

Fourteen interviews with distinguished jazz writers that explore the exciting challenges of writing about jazz. Writing Jazz presents interviews with fourteen distinguished jazz scholars: Whitney Bal …

This manual contains complementary information for that included in my previous texts regarding contemporary jazz improvisation techniques. As we all know John Coltrane revolutionized the harmonic co …

The life of the unparalleled purveyor of the Great American Songbook, Marian Mc Partland, is celebrated in this engrossing biography From Bobby Short to Esperanza Spalding, across the 33-year run of …

Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story …

Using insights from Integral Theory, describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform education and other fields. Jazz, America’s original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spi …