James Baldwin used to tell Nina Simone, "This is the world you have made for yourself, now you have to live in it."
Simone has created for herself a...
Within this book over fifty contemporary reggae artists and producersranging from Cultural Roots to Dancehall, and including Buju Banton, Shabba Ranks,...
Always elusive, constantly moving, incessantly changing, John Coltrane stood astride the jazz world of the late '50s and '60s. He was a giant of the saxophone...
A tribute to one of the most popular jazz albums of all time: "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. Includes transcriptions of the unedited session tapes; in-depth...
By 1972, when Music of Fela: Roforofo Fight was originally released (on two vinyl albums, Music of Fela Volume One and Volume Two), Fela was becoming one...