The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. The author delivers a portrait of the creative process at work, demonstrating that the cooperative method at the foundation of these two artist-groups was the primary…
Examines the music, philosophy, and circumstances surrounding the creation of Jobim's popular songs, instrumental compositions, and symphonic works
Explores jazz in an extraordinary range of contexts. The author argues that jazz embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African American base to embrace all of humanity. He examines jazz in relation to race and national identity in the US and broadens his …
Chronicles Guaraldi's career and role in the Northern California jazz scene, and also includes a complete discography and filmography, as well as an appendix of quotations from Guaraldi's former sidemen
Offers a chronologically arranged survey of jazz recordings, including biographical details and lineups
Challenges conventional jazz historiography by demonstrating the role of big bands in the development of jazz. This book describes how jazz musicians found big bands valuable. It explores the rehearsal band scene in New York and rise of orchestras. It combines historical researc…
Personal interviews with women jazz artists, including Marian McPartland, Abbey Lincoln, Cassandra Wilson, and Diana Krall. Between 1995 and 2000, Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse interviewed dozens of women jazz instrumentalists and vocalists. "Jazzwomen" collects 21 of the m…
