The editors of the Journal of Jazz Studies welcome new managing editor, Jeff McMillan, and thank former managing editor, Evan Spring, for his years of dedicated service.

Editor Henry Martin remembers jazz music theory scholar, pianist, composer, friend, and former Journal of Jazz Studies editorial board member, Steven Strunk, who passed on February 20, 2012.

Journal of Jazz Studies Editor, Ed Berger, reviews Ricky Riccardi's 2011 biography of Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years.

The editors of the Journal of Jazz Studies explain their rationale for converting their print journal, the Annual Review of Jazz Studies, into a free, open-access, online publication. Open access makes the journal universally accessible, and offers other technological advantages.…

Director of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, Michael Cogswell reviews Terry Teachout's 2009 biography of Louis Armstrong, Pops.

Johnny Hartman biographer, Gregg Akkerman, reviews South African singer Sathima Bea Benjamin's life story as related in Musical Echoes:South African Women Thinking in Jazz, by Carol Ann Muller and Benjamin.

This bibliography compiles articles of interest in jazz music scholarship that were published in 2009 or 2010 and appeared in journals not specifically dedicated to jazz study.

Henry Martin, a composer, music theorist, professor of music at Rutgers University–Newark, and co-editor of the Journal of Jazz Studies, contributes a review-essay about Steve Larson’s recent book, Analyzing Jazz: A Schenkerian Approach (Pendragon Press, 2009).

Poet Mark Haywood presents three sonnets that explore the life and music of Thelonious Monk, the great jazz pianist and composer.

Randy Sandke, a working professional trumpeter and composer for the last thirty years, contributes a review-essay on Krin Gabbard’s book Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture (Faber and Faber, 2008).