The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008. Few jazz musicians have had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles, and his own recorded legacy, the "facts" about Coltrane's life and work have never been definitely es[...]

Praise for "Lester Young"
." . . a schematic of unparalleled insight and detail."
---"Down Beat"
"A monumental work."
---Dizzy Gillespie
." . . a major contribution to jazz scholarship . . . for its illumination of Lester Young's music and for setting the biographical record straig[...]

With "New Orleans Suite", Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradicto[...]