jazz music

A collection of poems by contemporary American author Albert Murray.

Discusses how jazz legend Miles Davis's seminal album "Kind of Blue" has changed both music and culture since its release in 1959, and explains how it influenced diverse artists such as Steve Reich and the Velvet Underground.

Tells how the young Louis Armstrong developed his musical talent as an inmate in an orphanage, and describes his subsequent career as a leading jazz musician.

A collection of Wynton Marsalis poems and Paul Rogers portraits from A-Z honoring the great figures of jazz. Includes profiles of each jazz great along with suggested recordings.

An illustrated history of the origins and influences of jazz, from Africa to contemporary America.

Contains profiles of some of the great jazz musicians of the 1950s, including Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Ray Charles, and others, and features selected discographies.

Contains over 4,500 alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about various aspects of jazz, covering performers, venues, forms, terms, instruments, festivals, record labels, and other topics, and including discographies and photographs.

Photographs and text help trace the history of jazz music in the United States from 1920 to 1950.

Describes the history of jazz from its beginnings in the early 1900s until its first boom in the 1930s, and discusses the great jazz soloists of the 1920s, including Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong, and the big bands and arrangers, such as Fletcher Henderson, Bennie Moten, and Duke Ellington.