Within the pantheon of jazz, Miles Davis has assumed an almost godlike position. The trumpeter, who was born 100 years ago on May 26, was a player who kept his place at the bleeding edge of jazz ...
The jazz background. -- The birth of jazz. -- The blues. -- Piano jazz. -- White jazz. -- Big bands. -- The swing era. -- Jazz in the 1940s. -- Modern jazz. -- The ...
Presenting Jazzocracy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology by Kabir Sehgal (Better World Books) If one wonders how two of the most quintessential American icons relate to ...