jazz

Surveys the history of jazz from its African roots to the present. Includes a bibliography, discography and glossary.

Describes how the music of black America interacting with other musical heritages, flowered into jazz.

Chronicles the history of jazz music and provides information on the major types of jazz, the key musicians of the twentieth centuries, European and African influences on jazz, and other related topics.

Introduces the origins and elements of the musical styles known as jazz and the blues.

Presents a comprehensive guide to Jazz, and includes over two thousand profiles of jazz legends such as Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and John Coltrane as well as reviews of over three thousand albums.

Thirteen-year-old Maya is confused and resentful when she is sent to Seattle to spend the summer with a grandmother she has never met, but finds her life changed when she discovers a trombone in the attic.

A pictorial history of the Cotton Club, the famous Harlem night club of the 1920's and 1930's.