Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development.
With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and …

Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is one of the first books to
promote the reform of music studies with a centralized presence of jazz and black music to …

In The Contradictions of Jazz, Paul Rinzler takes a new approach to jazz aesthetics and
theory by exploring four pairs of opposites present in jazz: individualism and …

A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both
individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first …

Jazz was born on the streets, grew up in the clubs, and will die—so some fear—at the
university. Facing dwindling commercial demand and the gradual disappearance of venues …

Sound Ways of Knowing: Music in the Interdisciplinary Curriculum by Janet Barrett, Claire
McCoy, and Kari Veblen (1997) For me, this is the greatest book written in our field because …

Ken Prouty argues that knowledge of jazz, or more to the point, claims to knowledge of jazz,
are the prime movers in forming jazz's identity, its canon, and its community. Every jazz artist …

Like most ground-breaking art forms, contemporary creative music is rarely understood or
accepted in its own time, and for those reasons, can largely go unheard. Music and the …

In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the
year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection …

This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the
improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and …