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What It Is: Conversations with Jazz Artist Dave Liebman

by Dave Liebman with Lewis Porter (Scarecrow Press, Studies in Jazz series, 2013).

(N.Y.: Routledge, Dec. 2007), by Chris DeVito, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Wolf Schmaler, David Wild and General Editor: Lewis Porter. This large (ca.800 page) reference book represents the state of the art of Coltrane research.

John Coltrane: His Life and Music

Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1998. Noted and award-winning study; published in French and Italian in 2007, Russian 2009; winner of award in France, “Best Jazz Book of the Year.”

Jazz: A Century of Change

New York: Schirmer Books, October 1997. A collection of rare historic articles from the 1800s through the 1990s, with text by Porter.

Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present

by Porter and Ullman, with Ed Hazell. Englewood, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1992. Jazz history textbook, recommended by DownBeat magazine.

A Lester Young Reader

edited by L. Porter. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. A collection of classic articles about Youngm, and all of his interviews, annotated.

Lester Young

Twayne Publishers, 1985; reprinted, with revisions, U of Michigan Press, 2005. Mostly miusic analysis, with notation.

SELECTED ARTICLES

MOST RECENT WORK

I publish my new research, as it becomes ready, on WBGO’s blog, courtesy of their excellent editor Nate Chinen: https://www.wbgo.org/term/deep-dive#stream/0

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND REFERENCE WORKS

Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 15 articles.

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New York: Gale Publications, December 2000. I authored or co-authored about 1000 short jazz biographies, incorporating extensive new research into many.

“John Coltrane,” in Jazz: A Reader’s Companion, edited by Bill Kirchner (Oxford U. Press, 2000)

FOREWORDS TO BOOKS

Foreword to Charlie Christian: Jazz Guitar's King of Swing, by Wayne Goins and Craig McKinney, Mellen Press, fall 2005. I also fact-checked the book.

Foreword to Warne Marsh, by Safford Chamberlain. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 2000. Part of the Institute of Jazz Studies Jazz Monograph Series. I also edited this book.

Foreword to J.J. Johnson, by Joshua Berrett. Jazz Monograph Series, Scarecrow Press, 1999. I also edited this book.

JOURNAL AND OTHER ARTICLES

"Charlie Parker on Film and Television," in Musica Oggi (in Italian), 2006

"Evidence: A recently discovered high-quality live recording featuring Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane sheds new light on their brief partnership." Feature article, Jazz Times magazine, October 2005, 34-39.

"John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme,'" in Unitarian Universalist World, a magazine, October 2005.

ESSAYS TO ACCOMPANY READINGS

Notes to Wes Montgomery: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings, which I also helped to discover, 2019.

Essay to the 6-CD set, John Coltrane on Prestige (released Fall 2006)

Essay to the CD, SFJAZZ Tribute to John Coltrane, with Joshua Redman (released fall 2005)

Essay to the CD, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, 1957 (released September 2005). I also helped to discover the recordings.

Essay to the 4-CD set John Coltrane: Legacy, selected by his son Ravi. Verve/Impulse Records, published Oct. 2002.

Essay to Ascension by John Coltrane. Impulse records, 2000.

"John Coltrane: The Atlantic Years," pp. 5-29 in the book that accompanies John Coltrane: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, boxed set, Rhino Records, August 1995. Nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award.

Reprinted in Carl Woideck, ed., A John Coltrane Companion (Schirmer, 1999)