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Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives

An alternate history of improvisation in music.
Modes and Manifestations of Improvisation in Urban Planning, Design, and Theory
New Monastery: Monk and the Jazz Avant-Garde
Researching the New Orleans-Chicago Jazz Connection: Tools and Methods
Asian Americans and Creative Music Legacies
Asian/American Improvisation in Chicago: Tatsu Aoki and the 'New' Japanese American Taiko
The Avenging Angel: Black Music and the Afro-technological

The science fiction of Henry Dumas and Samuel R. Delany.
The Community that Gave Jazz to Chicago
O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing: Anthony Braxton’s Speculative Music

"Trillium," Braxton's opera.
Of Sunshine and Happy Endings: Jazz, Parody, and the Limits of Interpretation
Review-Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack: Defining the Jazz Sound in the 1950s
James Reese Europe and the Infancy of Jazz Criticism
Interview with Keiko Uenishi (aka o.blaat)
Jeanne Lee's Voice

An innovative vocalist's life and career.
Musical Archetypes and Collective Consciousness: Cognitive Distribution and Free Improvisation
Novelty That Must Be Subtle: Continuity, Innovation and 'Improvisation' in North Indian Classical Music

Improvisation in Indian music and its relevance to jazz.
Eugene Stratton and Early Ragtime in Britain
Evidence: Monk as Documentary Subject

Thelonious Monk on film.
Dominant Positions: John Coltrane, Michel Foucault, and the Politics of Representation
Gittin' to Know Y'all: Improvised Music, Interculturalism, and the Racial Imagination

European free jazz encounters its African-American counterpart.
How the Creole Band Came to Be
Monk Meets SNCC

Read about Thelonious Monk's history as a political figure.
Cosmopolitan or Provincial?: Ideology in Early Black Music
Doctor Jazz: Jelly Roll Morton
Let's Call This: Race, Writing and Difference

Strategies of difference and transgression in the act of naming.
Syncopating Rhythms: Jazz and Caribbean Culture

The Caribbean as a prime source of jazz.
Thelonious Monk and the Performance of Poetry

Links between two performed arts.
Reflections on Jazz and the Politics of Race
Musical-Verbal Performance and the Negotiation of Ethnically Segregated Social Space

Negotiating segregated social space.
Tripping on Wires: The Wireless Body: Who is Improvising?
Wait for the Chord: An Interview with Scott Hamilton
The History, Myths, Values and Practices of Jazz Journalists

Howard Mandel writes about those who write about jazz.
The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Jazz

Lawrence Gushee considers the birth of jazz.
Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz

Why understanding Latin jazz is essential to jazz studies.
The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton (Liner Notes)
Discontinuity in the Music of Django Reinhardt
Mainstreaming Monk: The Ellington Album
Musical Literacy and Jazz Musicians in the 1910s and 1920s

Mastering written music in early jazz.
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The Jazz Review, Vol.1, No.1 (Nov. 1958)

The first issue of a seminal jazz publication.
"Jazz Careers in New York": Bobby Sanabria

Interview with jazz musician Bobby Sanabria.
"Jazz Careers in New York": Dado Moroni

Interview with jazz musician Dado Moroni.
"Jazz Careers in New York": Dave Gibson

Interview with jazz musicina Dave Gibson.
"Jazz Careers in New York": Dave Liebman

Interview with jazz musician Dave Liebman.
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The Jazz Review, Vol. 2, No. 6 (July 1959)

A seminal jazz publication.
The Jazz Review, Vol.1, No.2 (Dec. 1958)

A seminal publication, now in digital form.
The Jazz Review, Vol.2, No.1 (Jan.1959)

A seminal publication, now in digital form.
The Jazz Review, Vol.2, No.2 (Feb.1959)

A seminal publication, now in digital form.

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