James Baldwin used to tell Nina Simone, "This is the world you have made for yourself, now you have to live in it."
Simone has created for herself a...
Within this book over fifty contemporary reggae artists and producersranging from Cultural Roots to Dancehall, and including Buju Banton, Shabba Ranks,...
Always elusive, constantly moving, incessantly changing, John Coltrane stood astride the jazz world of the late '50s and '60s. He was a giant of the saxophone...
DESCRIPTION:The sounds of Africa have been infiltrating Western music and culture for some time. This book traces the development of the various musical...
Charlie Byrd, Herbie Mann, and others brought in bags full of discs from a trip to Brazil in 1961. Stan Getz listened to them and recorded "Desafinado,"...
This is the first time the history of the uniquely British 'Jazz Dance' scene has been documented in such depth, written over a period of 10 years by Mark...