Overview :Anyone interested in learning about a distinct music--jazz--will welcome this newest addition to the popular 101 reference series. Noted ant... Read More
Overview :Ranging across genres from the popular to the scholarly, this selection of John Szwed's published essays abides in the intersection of race ... Read More
Overview :"Revelatory . . . one of the most briskly revealing pieces of jazz biography that I've read." --Richard Brody, The New Yorker When Billie H... Read More
Overview :"The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith's personality to catch blades of... Read More
Overview :Musical genius, visionary artist, enigma -- more than ten years after his death, Miles Davis still looms large as a cultural icon. In this, ... Read More
Overview : The definitive biography of Alan Lomax-from John Szwed,"the best music biographer in the business" (L.A. Weekly). One of the most remarkabl... Read More
Overview :Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra--aka Herman Blount--was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepr... Read More
Overview :Anyone interested in learning about a distinct music--jazz--will welcome this newest addition to the popular 101 reference series. Noted ant... Read More