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An introduction to jazz, focusing on its historical development and famous performers.

Traces the origins of jazz, examining its unique rhythmic improvisation, instrumentation, scat singing, changing styles, and prominent musicians.

Brief text and photographs introduce a type of dancing known as jazz.

In New York City, a "groovy little jazz number" brings together a lonely crocodile and deer.

Chronicles the history of the influential jazz record label Impulse.

Contains sixty essays in which a variety of musicians, writers, and scholars examine the history and evolution of jazz, the styles and periods of the genre, and the contributions of notable jazz performers.

Covers hip performers and musicians and their art.

Contains more than two hundred black-and-white photographs of performers from the golden age of jazz, from the late 1930s through the 1940s, and includes personal recollections by the author about his experiences photographing and interviewing the musical legends.

Examine the roots and future of jazz and its links to other forms of cultural expression.

Focuses on the period in American musical history from 1930 to 1945 when jazz was synonymous with America's popular music.

Discusses the individual achievements and collaboration of Miles Davis and John Coltrane as they influenced each other and changed the character of jazz and American culture, and covers the often silent off-stage friendship between the two musicians.

Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz.