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Jazz Autobiography
Jazz, Roots to 1956
Jeanne Lee's Voice

An innovative vocalist's life and career.
Interview with Keiko Uenishi (aka o.blaat)
James Reese Europe and the Infancy of Jazz Criticism
Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack: Defining the Jazz Sound in the 1950s
Review-Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
Of Sunshine and Happy Endings: Jazz, Parody, and the Limits of Interpretation
O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing: Anthony Braxton’s Speculative Music

"Trillium," Braxton's opera.
The Community that Gave Jazz to Chicago
The Avenging Angel: Black Music and the Afro-technological

The science fiction of Henry Dumas and Samuel R. Delany.
Asian/American Improvisation in Chicago: Tatsu Aoki and the 'New' Japanese American Taiko
Asian Americans and Creative Music Legacies
Researching the New Orleans-Chicago Jazz Connection: Tools and Methods
New Monastery: Monk and the Jazz Avant-Garde
Modes and Manifestations of Improvisation in Urban Planning, Design, and Theory
Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives

An alternate history of improvisation in music.
Improvisation, Correlation, and Vibration: An Interview with Steve Coleman
I Wanted to Live in That Music: Blues, Bessie Smith, and Improvised Identities in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees
I Love You with an Asterisk: African-American Experimental Composers and the French Jazz Press, 1970-1980
Central Avenue Bop
Roundtable Discussion: The Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto
The Challenge of the Changing Same: The Jazz Avant-Garde of the 1960s, the Black Aesthetic, and the Black Arts Movement
Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation

On Rollins' mastery of solo structure.
Sangha: Collaborative Improvisations on Community

South Asian jazz communities in the U.S.
John Szwed on "Blues for New Orleans"

Of New Orleans as a cultural center, and Hurricane Katrina.
"King Porter Stomp" and the Jazz Tradition

How one of jazz' most popular compositions got that way.
The Myth of Absence: Representation, Reception, and the Music of Experimental Women Improvisors
The Legacy of Genius: Improvisation, Romantic Imagination, and the Western Musical Canon
Down Beats and Rolling Stones: An Historical Comparison of Jazz and Rock Journalism
Shining Trumpets: A History of Jazz
Review—Speak it Louder: Asian Americans Making Music
Review—Rhythm Science

DJ Paul D. Miller's "manifesto for the digital age."s
Review—Prinzip Improvisation

A review of Prinzip Improvisation [The Improvisation Principle]
Review—Playing Ad Lib: Improvisatory Music in Australia 1836-1970

A review of "Playing Ad Lib: Improvisatory Music in Australia 1836-1970," by John Whiteoak. Sydney: Currency Press, 1999.
Review—Minute Particulars: Meanings in Music-Making in the Wake of Hierarchical Realignments and Other Essays
Review—Appel, Ellington, and the Modernist Canon

A review of "Jazz Modernism, From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce."
“’How You Sound??’: Amiri Baraka Writes Free Jazz.”
You've Got to Be Jazzistic

Jazz in black literature and film.
White Anglo-Saxon Pythagorean (Roswell Rudd)
When Malindy Sings: A Meditation on Black Women's Vocality

Farah Jasmine Griffin on "the recognizably black woman 'singing rather than speaking.'"
The Literary Ellington

Ellington's inspiration from Harlem Renaissance authors.
Stitt's Time (from The Velvet Lounge)

Soul jazz as a social force.
Brent Edwards on Ada "Bricktop" Ward's Career in Paris
Seeing Jazz: Introduction

About jazz and visual art.
Paris Blues: Ellington, Armstrong, and Saying it with Music
Out There (Charles Gayle)

On a free jazz pioneer and perennial maverick.
Jimmy Heath: "I Walked With Giants" (I)

Autobiography of modern jazz master.
Monstrosioso (from The Velvet Lounge)

Wild Bill Davis, Roland Kirk & Jimmy Smith.

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