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  • DC Jazz

    Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC

    by Maurice Jackson, Blair A. Ruble, E. Ethelbert Miller, John Edward Hasse, Willard Jenkins, Rusty Hassan, Anna Harwell Celenza, Bridget Arnwine0, Lauren Sinclair1, Judith Korey2, Michael Fitzgerald3 ...
    Original and fascinating stories about the DC jazz scene throughout its history—now in paperback, with a new prefaceThe familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then goes by rail to New York, before exploding around the globe. This telling of jazz's history, however, overlooks the pivotal role ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Rhythms

    The Autobiography of Randy Weston

    by Randy Weston, Willard Jenkins, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the world’s most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose career has spanned five continents and more than six decades. Packed with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms is Weston’s life story, as told by him to the music journalist Willard Jenkins. It encompasses Weston’s childhood in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Ain't But a Few of Us

    Black Music Writers Tell Their Story

    Edited by Willard Jenkins ...
    Despite the fact that most of jazz’s major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, critics, and authors have been and continue to be white men. No major mainstream jazz publication has ever had a black editor or publisher. Ain’t But a Few of Us presents over two dozen candid dialogues with black jazz critics and journalists ranging from ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Tap Dancing America : A Cultural History

    A Cultural History

    by Constance Valis Hill ...
    Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap--the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne ... Read more

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  • Memphis Mayhem

    A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World

    by David A. Less ...
    Memphis gave birth to music that changed the world — Memphis Mayhem is a fascinating history of how music and culture collided to change the state of music forever“David Less has captured the essence of the Memphis music experience on these pages in no uncertain terms. There’s truly no place like Memphis and this is the story of why that is. HAVE MERCY!” — Billy F Gibbons, ZZ TopForeword by ... Read more

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  • At the Jazz Band Ball

    Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene

    by Nat Hentoff ...
    Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian—"I’m a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer"—has lived through much of jazz’s history and has known many of jazz’s most important figures, often as friend and confidant. Hentoff has been a tireless advocate for the neglected parts of jazz history, including forgotten sidemen and -women. This volume includes ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Blues: The Basics

    by Dick Weissman ...
    Series series The Basics
    Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style. Material includes:a definition of the blues and the major genres within itkey artists such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jeffersonkey recordingsComplete with timelines ... ... Read more

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  • Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet

    Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz

    by Randall Sandke ...
    Series Book 60 - Studies in Jazz
    Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet tackles a controversial question: Is jazz the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination, or is it more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influences under the broader umbrella of American culture? This book does not question that jazz was ... Read more

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  • The New Face of Jazz

    An Intimate Look at Today's Living Legends and the Artists of Tomorrow

    by Cicily Janus ...
    Jazz is thriving in the twenty-first century, and The New Face of Jazz is an intimate, illustrated guide to the artists, venues, and festivals of today's jazz scene. This book celebrates the living legends, current stars, and faces of tomorrow as they continue to innovate and expand the boundaries of this great musical legacy.In their own words, artists such as McCoy Tyner, Arturo Sandoval, Diane ... Read more

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  • The History of Jazz

    by Ted Gioia ...
    Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary ... Read more

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  • How to Listen to Jazz

    by Ted Gioia ...
    **An Economist Best Book of the YearAn acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz.“Mr. Gioia could not have done a better job. Through him, jazz might even find new devotees.” ―Economist**In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen ... Read more

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