This book on jazz music covers key personalities, hit songs and experimental compositions, landmark performances and recordings, publications, musical instruments, social and historical issues, organizations and schools, record companies, and more.

The jazzy alphabet boogies and sings, making hot, cool, pizzazzy street-jammin' jazz.

Chronicles the history of jazz music and provides information on the major types of jazz, the key musicians of the twentieth centuries, European and African influences on jazz, and other related topics.

A listener's guide to jazz brings together sixty essays on the history, performers, characteristics, and influence of jazz music.

"Dive into the celebrated life of Lady Day with this fully-illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of Billie Holiday's rapid--and, at times, grueling--rise to become one of the best musicians who ever lived. From her days as a young entertainer performing for small jazz clubs in Harlem, to headlining sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall, every trouble and triumph of Billie Holiday's bold, influential career is featured in this graphic novel from...