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S. Duncan Reid has written a meticulously researched and detailed account of the performances and recording career of Bay Area-raised and small group …
On November 29, 1957, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holliday, Zoot Sims, Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins, and a multi-talented young R&B player who played jaz…
In Vince Guaraldi at the Piano (McFarland Press, 2012),Derrick Bang chronicles San Francisco jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi's sojourns into the world of …
"...when people were hearing us, they were hearing the avant-garde on the one hand, and they were hearing the history of jazz that led up to it on the…
"The public don't understand jazz music as we musicians do. A diminished seventh don't mean a thing to them, but they go for high notes. After all, th…
Feed: "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" Comic: "Practice!" When I first began to build a jazz record library back in the early 1960s, one particu…
"Around 380 BC, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote in the Republic about the idealized society as having a "united influence of music and sport" where …
Ben Cawthra's Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz (University of Chicago, 2011) discusses the way images of jazz and the musicians who…
Kathy Sloane's Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club (Indiana UP, 2011) captures a time and place in San Francisco in the 70s and early 80s that we…