Gene Lees is probably the best jazz essayist in America today, and the book that consolidated his reputation was Singers and the Song, which appeared in 1987. Now this classic ...

Biography of lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe, creators of memorable Broadway and motion picture musicals.

A celebrated jazz writer offers fascinating portraits of friends he's known during a lifetime in jazz For more than half a century, jazz writer and lyricist Gene Lees has been ...

In a series of candid interviews with jazz players, composers, and critics, Gene Lees explores racism in the past and present of jazz—both the white racism that for decades ...

Jazz musicians from the United States, Canada, Europe, Russia, and Japan, presented with duotone photographs and individual profiles, arranged chronologically, beginning with ...

This is the remarkable autobiography of composer and pianist Henry Mancini, whose more than ninety film scores include The Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Touch of Evil ...

Thirteen original essays from one of the world's greatest jazz writers draw together observations on the craft of the arranger. Ranging from big bands to studio backings for ...

A biography of the jazz musician and leader of the "First Herd" and the "Second Herd" from the 1930s to the 1950s.

"[The] story of Jack Royal, a troubled and lonely Chicago musician who finds fame he never asked for as a singer, actor, and darling of the young" --