Paul Bley began on violin at the age of five, took up the piano at eight and gained his junior diploma at McGill conservatory at eleven. From 1950-...
03 Jan
Harry Partch by Bob Gilmore
Bob Gilmores Harry Partch is the definitive biography of a man who obscured large portions of his background and cultivated a reputation for being ...
Laurence Bergreens book on Louis Armstrong is most satisfying in terms of exposing Armstrong not just as a musician but as a human. Bergreen brings...
08 Feb
Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz by Marquette Folley- Cooper, Deborah Macanic, Janice McNeil
Seeing Jazz is an evocative experiment, a place to begin, not the last word. It is not an encyclopedic effort to gather all of the jazz paintings a...
But Beautiful is both ingenious and a brilliantly written book. Dyer sets the stage for each musician, we can decipher each note played by Theoloni...