Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce

Jazz Modernism

From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce

2002 • 283 pages

How does the jazz of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker fit into the great tradition of modernist art? In this book, an eminent cultural historian provides the answer and offers a new way of understanding jazz.

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