Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass
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Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass traces the stylistic evolution of jazz from...
Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
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Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools...
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
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'I know why I'm doing all this,' I said. 'Everything I do in life is trying to get her back. I think...
Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism
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Among many art, music and literature lovers, particularly devotees of modernism, the expatriate...
Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate in Jazz-age Paris
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This is the complete biography of the first African American fighter pilot, Georgia native Eugene J....
The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
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Fletcher Henderson (1897 - 1952) is a major figure in the history of jazz. He led the premier black...
Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz
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When the first Masonic lodges opened in Paris in the early 18th century their membership included...
Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
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Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the...