In the JJA’s recent survey of members regarding JJANews content, keen interest was for updates of recent publications about jazz. Thanks to Bob Blumenthal and the JJA Awards Books Committee for the following list of recently published and forthcoming books.
OUT NOW
- Jeff Colella, Love Music and It Will Love You Back (MyMusicMasterclass.com)
- Cisco Bradley, Universal Tonality: The Life of William Parker (Duke University Press Books)
- Geoffrey Littlefield & Christopher Riddle, Nelson Riddle: Music with a Heartbeat (Grosvenor House Publishing)
- Kate Soloman, Amy Winehouse: Lives of the Musicians (Lawrence King Publishing) (Grosvenor House Publishing)
- Dottie Dodgion & , The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer (University of Illinois Press)
- James Gordon Williams, Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practice of Black Musical Space (University Press of Mississippi)
- Ebony Gilbert & David Calcano, Billie Holiday: The Graphic Novel: Women in Jazz (Fantoons)
- David Burke, Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz (Desert Hearts)
- David Sulzer, Music, Math and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music (Columbia University Press)
- Richard Brent Turner, Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz and Black Internationalism (NYU Press)
- Kevin Mooney, Texas Jazz Singer: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Jazz and Beyond (Texas A&M University Press)
- Mike Titlebaum, Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment (Routledge)
- Sven Bjerstedt, Storytelling in Jazz and Musicality in Theatre: Through the Mirror (Routledge)
- Jay Thomas, Life and Jazz Stories (Kindle edition)
- Arlen Gargagliano & Ulysses Owens, Jr., The Musician’s Career Guide (Allworth)
- Margriet Naber, John Tchicai: A Chaos with Some Kind of Order (Ear Mind Heart Media)
FORTHCOMING
- Marc Ribot, Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist (Akashic Books)
- Joe LaBarbara, Charles Levin, Times Remembered: The Final Years of the Bill Evans Trio (University of North Texas Press)
