The Jazz Book Joachim-Ernst Berendt and Gunther Huesmann Softcover; 816 pages ISBN: 155652823X Lawrence Hill Books 2009 . The first edition of The Jazz Book came out in 1952, the earnest work of ...

Three Books For The Jazz Lover On Your List Fresh Air jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a singer's biography, a pianist's autobiography, and a fat coffee table book.

Whether you lean towards bebop, ragtime or avant-garde sounds, we've rounded up some of our favorite jazz books.

Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet by Randall Sandke: To say this book has been controversial among the jazz scene would be quite an understatement. Commentary by Ethan Iverson and Chris Kelsey have ...

Writer profiles 21st-century jazz greats in new book By Andrew Dansby , Former Entertainment Writer Updated Aug 8, 2014 4:18 p.m. The Robert Glasper Experiment ...

(Shaker and Pratt changed the title to "Jazz & Swing" to expand the book's range.) The "Treasury" opens with a history of jazz in Rhode Island by Kaplan and Petteruti that goes back to the 1920s, ...

jazz (jaz) n. [etym. uncert] 1 a kind of music, originally improvised but now also arranged, characterized by syncopation, rubato, usually heavily accented rhythms, dissonances, individualized melo… ...

Few cities have celebrated this year’s Billy Strayhorn centennial more robustly than Chicago, which has honored the master composer with concerts, panel discussions, film screenings and more.… ...

Andrew Dansby covers culture and entertainment, both local and national, for the Houston Chronicle. He came to the Chronicle in 2004 from Rolling Stone, where he spent five years writing about ...