creations, explaining how Gershwin became the first composer to apply popular music to classical forms, how

biography, which chronicles his immense contributions to American music, far beyond the world of jazz

music in his nearly 60-year career-as player (chiefly on trombone and cello), composer, and educator. In

in jazz and experimental music history._x000B_Bley is best known for her jazz opera "Escalator over

boundaries between high and low, and wrote works that crossed over into a realm where art music, jazz, and

in both his work and his life.Award-winning music historian Howard Pollack's new biography covers

haunting, incorruptible melodist whose unique personality was mirrored in his music. Man and composer dared