Search Results for: Jazz And Death

A disclosure of the deaths of jazz artists and their often fatal lifestyles

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans "ja

When a jazz hero dies, rumors, speculation, gossip, and legend can muddle the real cause of death. In this book, Frederick J. Spencer, M.D., conducts an inquest

Is Jazz Dead? examines the state of jazz in America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Musicians themselves are returning to New Orleans, Swing, and Bebop

This book engages with the question of how music expresses and responds to the profound existential disturbance that death and loss present to the living. Singi