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 ...

Two wonderful books have just been published by Taschen, known for its beautiful coffee table productions. Both publications are unusual and must-haves for anybody interested in jazz music and ...

They came out in good numbers to celebrate the launch of the Dublin Jazz Book at the BelloBar in the funky Portobello neighborhood of Dublin. The success of the evening went beyond numbers though, for ...

New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History by Bruce Boyd Raeburn Michigan, 352 pp., $26.95 Ellington UptownDuke Ellington, James P. Johnson and the Birth of Concert Jazzby John Howland ...

Still at it after 60 years, Arthur Elgort has had an industrious week, picking up a doctorate at his alma mater Hunter College, recapping his career at a “Fashion Icons” talk at 92Y and gearing up for ...

“The Jazz Image,” Lee Tanner (Abrams, $10). This gorgeous coffee-table collection of moody, low-lit black-and-white duotones — many printed across two pages — is unusual in that it was assembled by a ...

*The Los Angeles Philharmonic has partnered with the Annual Leimert Park Village Book Fair to pay homage to Jazz Legend Thelonious Monk on Friday, March 9, 2018 at 8pm with a special Jazz Book Pop-Up ...

Ever since "jazz" was coined as a slang term in the early 1900s, its musicians have been innovators. And while writer Rick Mitchell - a former Houston Chronicle music critic - acknowledges the ...

There was a time when Milwaukee had venues that hosted jazz gigs all the time. One of them, The Jazz Gallery, is catalogued in a new book by the club's owner Chuck LaPaglia. Get a peek at this great ...

Fresh Air jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews three jazz books out this holiday season—a singer's biography, a pianist's autobiography, and a fat coffee table book. Whitehead says they're all worth a ...

From Duke Ellington’s houndstooth blazer to Billie Holiday’s signature gardenias, jazz musicians and singers throughout history have used fashion to challenge stereotypes of race, class and gender.