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…

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.…

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).

This bibliography compiles articles of interest in jazz music scholarship that were published in 2005 or 2006 and appeared in journals not specifically dedicated to jazz study.