Overview :Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a p... Read More
Overview :The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Amon... Read More
Overview :2005 Finalist for the Theatre Library Association's Book Award Why do so many African American film characters seem to have magical powers?... Read More
Overview :Charles Mingus is one of the most important--and most mythologized--composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mix... Read More
Overview :American cinema has long been fascinated by jazz and jazz musicians. Yet most jazz films aren't really about jazz. Rather, as Krin Gabbard s... Read More