Jazz, Blues

Charles Mingus is one of the most important—and most mythologized—composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a bandleade …

‘An occasion to appreciate Dexter’s resounding musical genius as well as his wish for major social transformation.”—Angela Y. Davis, political activist, scholar, author, and speaker Sophistica …

In histories of music, producers tend to fall by the wayside–generally unknown and seldom acknowledged. But without them and their contributions to the art form, we’d have little on record of some o …

Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second instalment in Kenny Mathieson’s series of jazz histories. Cookin’ examines the birth and development of two of the key jazz styles of the post-war era, …

Finalist for the 2019 Jazz Journalists Association Book of the Year About Jazz, Jazz Awards for Journalism ‘Is there jazz in China?’ This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest t …

Who am I? I am time. Time never ceases to stop. It continues to move forward spearheading us into what comes next. The ‘time’ is now. It is time to enlarge your thinking into a new world of time. A n …

New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city’s jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin’ the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in Ne …

Calling Planet Earth: Close Encounters with Sun Ra pulls us into the quirky world of the jazz musician known first as Herman Blount, then as Sun Ra (1914-1993), the Arkestra leader who claimed for mo …

Shortlisted for the 2022 Euro SEAS Humanities Book Prize Quyền Văn Minh (b. 1954) is not only a jazz saxophonist and lecturer at the prestigious Vietnam National Academy of Music, but he is also one …

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 …