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 | Latin Jazz: The First of the Fusions, 1880s to Today Product# 460680716 Selling for $29.95 "Latin influences on jazz began way back in New Orleans, where Spanish settlers mixed with French, Creoles, and African-Americans to create the first jazz sounds. Jelly Roll Morton spoke of the importance of 'the Latin tinge', and since his time Latin musicians have added their own flavorings to jazz music. Now, for the first time, author John Storm Roberts tells the full story of the great Latin jazz musicians including Tito Puente, Ray Baretto, Astrid Gilberto, Chick Corea, and dozens more. The book covers the many centers of Latin Jazz activity, from New York's barrios to the West Coast of America, Brazil, Cuba, and Latin America. Richly illustrated with photographs, this book helps explain the phenomenal growth of Latin-influenced popular music." |
 | The Penguin Guide To Jazz On Cd Product# 460686774 Selling for $26 Reviews jazz recordings and includes biographical details and lineups. |
 | Jazz Heritage Product# 460768096 Selling for $18.95 "Includes reviews, critiques, and collected liner notes as well as eye witness accounts of jazz greats at work and a provocative discussion of jazz as authentic American folk music" |
 | The Works of Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman Product# 460768129 Selling for $60 "The enthusiastic reception by students, scholars, and the general public to the 1988 publication of the schomburg Library of Nineteenth -Century Black Women Writers more than justified the efforts of twenty- five scholars and the staff of the Black Periodical Literature Project to piece together the fragments of knowledge about the writing of African American women between 1773 and 1910." |
 | Jazz; The American Theme Song Product# 460768295 Selling for $38 "Praised by the Washington Post as a 'tough, unblinked critic', James Lincoln Collier is probably the most controversial writer on jazz today. With the publication of 'Jazz: The American Theme Song', Collier does nothing to soften his reputation for hard-hitting, incisive commentary. Questioning everything we think we know about jazz-- its origins, its innovative geniuses, the importance of improvisation and spontaneous inspiration in a performance-- and the jazz world, these ten provocative essays on the music and its place in American culture overturn tired assumptions and will alternately enrage, enlighten, and entertain. 'Jazz: The Americna Theme Song' offers music lovers razor-sharp analysis of musical trends and styles, and fearless explorations of the most potentially explosive issues in jazz today. Collier argues, for example, that although jazz was originally devised by African Americans from black folk music, jazz has long been a part of the cultural heritage of musicians and audiences of all races and classes, and is not black music per se. Impeccably researched and informed by Collier's wide-ranging intellect. 'Jazz: The American Theme Song' is an important look at jazz's past, its present, and its uncertain future. It is a book everyone who cares about the music will want to read." |