Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet by Randall Sandke: To say this book has been controversial among the jazz scene would be quite an understatement. Commentary by Ethan Iverson and Chris Kelsey have ...

From 2015 through 2020, a personal research project included my reading dozens of jazz books and related media. They included mainstays such as the massive reference The Penguin Guide to Jazz ...

All 20 color plates from Henri Matisse’s “Jazz” book are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago for the first time since ...

Colter Harper’s book “Jazz in the Hill” explores the musical genre through the lens of conversation and community as a catalyst for change. Harper provides a direct look at the dialogue between ...

“Japanese-influenced listening bars” may be the latest, greatest trend in US bar culture, but their high-end sound systems and even more highfalutin aesthetic draw from a much more humble practice: ...

SEND ME DOWN—Henry Steig—Knopf ($2.50). A first novel by the brother of New Yorker Artist William Steig is the best story so far about hot jazz and the people who make it. Dorothy Baker’s Young Man ...

THE GIANT SWING—W. R. Burnett— Harper. Author Burnett, who has sung hitherto only of sidearms and hard men, has changed his key a little. The Giant Swing’s hero, never a tough boy, rises from jazz ...

Playboy magazine stripped of nudity — a brand adjustment owed to Internet-delivered availability of nudity and so much more — signals the end of an era. It was an era, a new book asserts, in which the ...

Jerrard Polk is the kind of guy who always likes to look sharp. A nice hat, and stripped grey suit would be typical attire, with a pop of colour somewhere. He borrows some of his aesthetic from jazz ...