Presents an overview of jazz, its elements, and its history.

This book on jazz music covers key personalities, hit songs and experimental compositions, landmark performances and recordings, publications, musical instruments, social and historical issues, organizations and schools, record companies, and more.

This book discusses the origins of jazz, famed jazz musicians, musical movements within the genre, and jazz's influence on rock 'n' roll.

In the 1960's Chicago jazz scene, a talented but troubled singer has a heartbreaking relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter.

Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own and from the classical piano pieces he was trained to play to the toe-tapping swing of the big band era. Song Yuhua is refined, educated and bonded since age eighteen to Shanghai's most powerful crime boss in payment for her father's gambling debts. Outwardly submissive, she burns...

One night at the Hotel Midnight, the lyrics written and sung by jazz musician Rat are those inspired by his friendship with Bat, who plays the piano and writes the tunes.

Profiles ten notable jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis.