In this companion to the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning "Trombone Shorty, " readers can join scrappy young musician Shorty on a tour of his beloved New Orleans. Full color.

"How to Play Classic Jazz Guitar is an instruction book designed for the intermediate guitarist who wishes to explore the "classic" style of swing-era jazz popularized by Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Herb Ellis, and other big band and small combo guitarists. It offers a clear, concise introduction to jazz guitar, beginning with simple chords and progressions, then going on step by step to more advanced chords and alternate harmonies. How to...

"An ensemble-cast novel about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, following a jazz musician and the multiple women-some charmed by him, others scorned-who find the power of their own voices in this thrilling debut. It's 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies man, lives for his music, and refuses to be tied down. Before a gig in Miami, he learns that the woman who is secretly closest to...

Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the twentieth century. To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental, eccentric, taciturn, or childlike. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations,...

"John Lenwood McLean - sugar free saxophonist from Sugar Hill, Harlem - is widely known as one of the finest, most consistent soloists in jazz history. From early in his career Jackie's powerful, unsentimental, sometimes astringent sound and inventive style made audiences and critics sit up and listen. Steeped in - but eventually moving well beyond - the influence of his mentor and friend Charlie Parker, he built an attractive, instantly recognisable...