Tells the story of jazz. This title explains what jazz is, where it came from and who created it and why, within the context of American life and culture. It describes the travails and triumphs of musical innovators struggling for work, respect and cultural acceptance set against the backdrop of history, commerce and politics.

If you've always loved live music, sooner or later you'll want to reminisce about where you've been and what you've seen. This title helps you organise your musical memories, and to create your 'I was there' book.

Kind of Blue is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. This title provides a history of the album.

A guide to recorded jazz, which offers information and criticism. It reviews 14,000 CDs and includes over 400 artist listings.

A frank autobiography of the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. This book records his life - the music, the women and the drugs. It talks about the white promotors and producers who exploited black musicians as well as the critics.

Includes photographs by William Claxton taken for the book Jazzlife in 1960. While traveling around the United States with musicologist Joachim E Berendt to record America's original art form, Claxton met and photographed the jazz personalities in every major and minor city, capturing these musicians in their natural environment.

A jazz autobiography with anecdotes about the jazz life.

Looking at a range of jazz figures and their classic recordings, this book provides historical background, taken from the reminiscences of the musicians involved.

This biography examines the life of the West Indian singer-pianist Leslie Hutchinson who achieved international stardom and riches in the 1920s and 1930s.

Ella Fitzgerald is remembered as America's First Lady of Song . She sang Dixieland, swing, blues and wonderful Broadway show tunes by the likes of George Gershwin and Cole Porter. This work discusses Ella Fitzgerald's music from her first recording with Chick Webb and His Orchestra to her last recorded soundtrack for the film The Setting Sun .

A personal selection by three jazz critics of the best 250 jazz records, from the earliest roots of jazz to the beginnings of the modern jazz era. Each record is placed in its musical context and reviewed. For each disc, full details of personnel and recording dates and locations are given.

'The Extended Version', giving a deeper and more rounded portrait of a great musician.

A guide to blues music and the people behind it. Containing information on the great blues singers, songwriters and musicians and a list of hit blues songs, it takes music lovers on a journey through the home of the blues - from the Mississippi Delta to Memphis and Chicago and beyond.

10 Jazz Classics. For use with all Bb, Eb and C instruments, The Jazz Playalong Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians.

Interviews and Essays.

Brings together Larkin's reviews, articles and essays written for The Guardian, The Observer, The New Statesman and numerous other publications. As well as being passionate and knowledgeable about jazz, the pieces are beautifully written.

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The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.