Olegario Diaz 
Improvise Now [EPUB ebook] 

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 …

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music–Best History (tie) (2011) Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheral …

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 …

Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate the music of two jazz icons, while drawing on the discourses o …

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 …