Jazz, Blues

Randy Vincent’s second Sher Music Co. book covers every aspect of the crucial three-note voicings every guitarist needs to know. It has received glowing endorsements from Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, Mike …

This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the to …

Winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections During the formative years of jazz (1890–1917), the Creoles o …

The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the ‘First Man of Jazz.’ Much of the information that the book relied on came from a …

Jazz is essentially an aural tradition and is dependent on this method of learning for success in developing a true understanding of the style. It is impossible to become a jazz musician without fami …

‘Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that, ‘ Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews g …

Jazz as an instrument of global diplomacy transformed superpower relations in the Cold War era and reshaped democracy’s image worldwide. Lisa E. Davenport tells the story of America’s program of jazz …

Taking inspiration from a class room assignment and John Coltrane’s interpretation of Mongo Santamaría’s Afro Blue, Earth, Wind, Water, & Fire is a jazz composition for sextet composed by Andrew Hann …

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature. Jazz with a Beat is the first book on the often overlooked but vitally important genre of sm …

Rhythm in the Rain is a nonfiction narrative about the jazz community in the Pacific Northwest that examines the people, places, and events that have made cities like Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, W …