Members of the JJA’s Book Awards committee penned these descriptions of the Book of the Year Honorable Mentions by Anthony Elmes, Celeste…
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The first nominees of the 2022 JJA Jazz Awards have been announced: Contenders for Jazz Book of the Year in separate categories…
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This list, compiled by the JJA’s Book Award committee chaired by Bob Blumenthal, comprises titles to be considered for the 2022 Award…
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Author/critic/jazz pianist Ted Gioia’s latest book. Music: A Subversive History, is a rigorously researched, close to 500-page travelogue through the history of music…
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Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival, 1978-1985, by Carolyn Glenn Brewer; University of North Texas Press, 2017; 308 pps;…
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His lyrics, initially inspired by Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson and Hank Williams and defying the conventions of pop music, have incorporated political,…
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There was a change in me, too, when I finally heard Bird play with McShann’s band—amidst the hard-rock swing where he grew.…
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Mingus had been stereotyped as "an angry black man"; his own words portray his genius, his complexities and troubles…
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New-Orleans bred John McCusker, for 30 years a photojournalist with the Times-Picayune and a local jazz historian, has written a tightly strung,…
MoreNica’s Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness, by David Kastin W.W. Norton & Company, 2011; 272 pps; $26.95 hardcover…
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Harlem Jazz Adventures: A European Baron’s Memoir, 1934-1969, by Timme Rosenkranz, adapted and edited by Fradley Hamilton Garner The Scarecrow Press, Inc.,…
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KD: A Jazz Biography By Dave Oliphant Wings Press, 2012, 200 pps., $19.95 hardcover With its rich and dark portrait of Kenny…
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