Jazz, Blues

Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz.  Ayler synthesized children’s song …

The richest place in America’s musical landscape is that fertile ground occupied by jazz. Scott De Veaux takes a central chapter in the history of jazz—the birth of bebop—and shows how our contempora …

‘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 Sophisticated Gia …

The long-awaited reissue of Alice Coltrane’s original spiritual teachings and reflections, which provide powerful insight into her transcendent music, cherished by millions across the globe  ALI …

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 …

In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was ‘ready for its new Golden Age.’ Thomas W. Jacobsen’s The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in …

All musicians need to thoroughly learn their scales, chords, intervals and various melodic patterns in order to become complete musicians. The question has always been how to approach this universal …

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 …

The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight is a celebration of jazz and the men and women who created and transformed it. In the twenty-one conversations contained in this engaging and highly acce …

This theoretical book is meant to improve contemporary jazz styles techniques for all musician players of modern jazz. These exercises were made as an extension of my book ‘240 Chromatic Exercises + …