Few musical genres inspire the passionate devotion of jazz. Its mystique goes far beyond the melo...
Fats Waller (1904-1943) was an outsize man in all respects: five feet eleven inches tall, he weig...
In this collection, Shipton has drawn together conversations with some of the key jazz pianists. ...
Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best-loved musicians in jazz history. With his ...
Fats Waller (1904-1943) was an outsize man in all respects: five feet, eleven inches tall, he wei...
The first volume of Barker's memoirs, A Life in Jazz, followed him from New Orleans into the big ...
In this collection, Shipton has drawn together conversations with some of the key jazz pianists. ...
As a musician who grew up in New Orleans, and later worked in New York with the major swing orche...
The Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art...