Here’s a book that should be required reading for Jazz 101 courses worldwide. While aimed primarily at novice jazz fans, more experienced aficionados will also
If the average music fan recognizes the name Harold Arlen at all, likely he remembers Arlen as composer of “Over the Rainbow” and other great
We’ve all heard her, but do any of us really know her? Published last year in celebration of the centenary of Billie Holiday’s birth, John
Jimmy Van Heusen, literally and figuratively, led a double life. Witty, talented, personable and dedicated to his craft of songwriting, he was in many ways
Jazz Tales from Jazz Legends, a new book by Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, distills an oral history
