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…