A review of The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965–68, by Keith Waters (Oxford University Press, 2011).

This bibliography compiles articles of interest in jazz music scholarship that were published in 2007 or 2008 and appeared in journals not specifically dedicated to jazz study.

While many written sources on tonal jazz harmony are implicitly aware of the fundamental differences between "stable" and "unstable" chords, little significant work has examined an improvising jazz pianist's harmonic options in terms of stability, or "consonance." For this article…

In 2002 the author published Birth of the Cool, a folio of the Miles Davis nonet repertoire of 1948 to 1950, based on the original manuscripts. This article gives a brief history of the nonet and its music; describes how…

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.

As a tribute to Annie Kuebler's enduring legacy to jazz studies, the Journal of Jazz Studies presents her insightful liner notes to the CD set "The Duke at Fargo 1940: Special 60th Anniversary Edition." These notes from Storyville STCD 8317/17…

Sandke's response to Andrew Sanchirico's review essay, "Is Conventional Jazz History Distorted by Myths?" in Journal of Jazz Studies issue 8.2.

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