jazz

Contains sixty essays that examine the origins and development of jazz by today's top jazz performers, writers, and scholars.

Explores how jazz has influenced nearly every type of American popular music, tracing the unexpected musical and cultural links between a variety of disparate American musical figures.

A comprehensive social history looks at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz's post-war styles.

Fifteen-year-old Maggie, still grieving the loss of her mother in an accident that also gave her a limp, has turned her back on old friends but connects with a new student, Dahlia, who makes her part of her quirky family and plans their future together as roving musicians and lovers.