Attention: The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums does not equal The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The former, new publication has been roundly criticized for not ...

Cozy up with six fascinating jazz reads, from sweeping histories to intimate autobiographies by legends like Miles Davis.

With the passing of February 2010, another Black History Month is on the books. The one true American art form is Jazz music, an indelible mark made by American Black artists which is celebrated ...

For most contemporary music consumers, listening to jazz is a historical exercise. Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue is, at the time of writing, still No. 3 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart 61 years after it ...

A late-era photo of Count Basie, part of the Basie collection at Rutgers’ Institute of Jazz Studies (photo: Suliman Olatunji/Rutgers University) Jazz was developed outside of the academy, but it lives ...

The Prehistory of Jazz -- New Orleans Jazz -- The Jazz Age -- Harlem -- The Swing Era -- Modern Jazz -- The Fragmentation of Jazz Styles -- Freedom and Fusion -- Traditionalists and Post-Modernists -- ...

I have a theory about jazz history: The conceptual breakthroughs, the new ways of playing, are created by horn players. But those breakthroughs are then fleshed out into new harmonic systems by ...

Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the ...

Dan Morgenstern, a jazz writer and historian who chronicled the music’s past and present, illuminating the artistry of Louis Armstrong, Lester Young and other greats — many of whom he knew and ...

This April, at the National Museum of American History, we’re celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month! Check out the calendar to learn more! Amy Kehs Jazz Appreciation Month JAZZ April is Jazz ...