An analysis and history of Dave Brubeck's "Jazzanians"

Review of Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s.

Review of Cary Ginell's Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley.

Review of Bob Gluck's You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band.

Just weeks before his death in the summer of 1931, Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke wrote to his parents that he was planning to marry a young lady named Alice O’Connell, mother’s maiden name Weiss. For years, aficionados and historians searched for…