With an unrivaled freshness, charm, and sense of fun, Wynton Marsalis steps forward not only as a world-renowned jazz and classical performer, but as a great teacher in the tradition of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. Using wonderfully appealing examples and analogies likening the rhyth[...]

The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for
The Civil War and Baseball.

Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music?jazz. Born in the [...]

The Grammy Award-winner and author of Blood on the Fields--the first and only jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize--passes on his wisdom, highlighting the importance of humility, patience, and integrity, and offering lessons learned from his years as a performer. Reprint. 10,000 first printing[...]

Since the 1950s, Herman Leonard's photographs of jazz musicians have been crucial in shaping the image of the music and the world in which it was created. Leonard's friendships with jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis gave him rare access to the innovators who made modern jazz and th[...]