Books in the Jazz Perspectives series

This is a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-war era France. Lane's book is the first to examine the responses of diasporic French Africans and Antilleans to the music they first heard in Paris in the interwar years, analysing the place of jazz within the emerging negritude and creolite movements.

Studies the development of New Orleans jazz and its effect on jazz history. This title provides the story of how New Orleans jazz came to be recognizable as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American jazz history. It traces the conceptualization of jazz history derived from ""Jazzmen"" to its refuge in New Orleans.

Examining the music of Duke Ellington and James P Johnson, this title places the concert works of these two iconic figures in context through an investigation of both related compositions by black and white peers as well as symphonic jazz-style arrangements from a number of early sound films, Broadway musicals, and Harlem nightclub floor shows.

The first scholarly study of John Lewis and the Third Stream music of the Modern Jazz Quartet