Journal of Jazz Studies (JJS)
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Giving Discographers Their Due
No full textA review of Bruce D. Epperson's More Important Than the Music: A History of Jazz Discography
“Marabi Nights”: An Enlightening History Of Another Jazz
No full textA review of Marabi Nights: Jazz, 'race' and society in early apartheid South Africa by Christopher Ballantine
Starting with the ABC and HR of It: A Conversation on the State of Jazz Education with Five Renowned Jazz Educators
No full textThe author sits down with five renowned jazz educators--Jamey Aebersold, David Baker, Dan Haerle, Rufus Reid, and Jerry Coker--for an enlightening conversation about the state of jazz education
Portrait of Cannonball: Cary Ginell's Walk Tall
No full textReview of Cary Ginell's Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Alice and Bix
No full textJust 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 her, hoping to learn more about Bix from one of the last people to know him. But they met with failure. Bix had the names of Alice’s father and mother reversed. We have identified the young woman as Alice Weiss, who, in 1931 was married to bassist Rex Gavitte and was listed in the 1930 U.S. Census as Alice Gavitte, head of the household, living in Astoria, Long Island, New York with her younger sister Veronica. With the help of members of the Weiss family and through research in public documents, we have been able to construct a fairly detailed biographical sketch for Alice. Alice kept Bix’s piano from the time he died in August 1931 until she died in 1982. We have traced Bix’s piano to its current owner and purchased it. It is currently on permanent loan to the Bix Beiderbecke Museum and Archives in Davenport, Iowa
Response to Randall Sandke
No full textAndrew Sanchirico's response to Randall Sandke's "Jazz Studies: Mainstream or Listing in a Sea of Ideology?
Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams
No full textReview of Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s
Ordered Step Motives in Jazz Standards
No full textThe focus of this study is the melodic motive. It uses a tool called the Ordered Step Motive (OSM) to investigate the way linear motives give shape to jazz compositions that have frequently changing tonal centers, nonfunctional chord connections, no clear global tonics, or structurally open, circular forms. This study contributes to the written body of theoretical knowledge about jazz composition by engaging with current scholarship on tonal ambiguity, circular form, and motivic associations between melody and harmonic organization. This study also invites further research into the relationship between common riffs and underlying structure in jazz composition, which may reveal crucial differences between standards written by Broadway and Tin-Pan-Alley composers and those written by practicing jazz musicians
Dave Brubeck's Definitive "Jazzanians"
No full textAn analysis and history of Dave Brubeck's "Jazzanians
Review of Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice by Tad Hershorn
No full textBook Review of Tad Hershorn's 2011 biography of Norman Granz