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

Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, ap

Traces the rags-to-riches career of the clarinetist and his role in popularizing jazz music in the post-Depression 1930s, assesses his elusive personality, and

Behind the iconic jazz orchestras, vocalists, and stage productions of the Swing Era lay the talents of popular music's unsung heroes: the arrangers. John Wrigg

This text reproduces the photographs of Charles Peterson. The commentary is historical and biographical, with anecdotes connecting the musicians featured in the