Call it the sheet music equivalent of a bootlegged mixtape. However, beginning in the 1960s, as jazz found a home in formal programs at universities across the country, fake books (and their ...

Carrington's students looked to The Real Book, a collection of sheet music which, for decades, has been the authority on which jazz songs are "standards." Carrington did not find, perhaps ...

Though women have always played a leading role as jazz performers, they have seldom gotten the credit they deserve as writers. Jazz drummer, composer/producer and three-time Grammy winner Terri ...