Collection: Music

Rhino Records have begun an LP series that is being called "Now Playing." These sets contain a nice ‘best of’ collection that includes some deep...

Regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis's masterpiece. This 1959 album's influence on music, including jazz, rock and...

  Serpentwithfeet is not only imagining, but exploring a world wherein Black love is paramount. His new album, DEACON, is "a study rather than a...

Mic check! Learn your opposites with Biggie Smalls in the Legends of Hip-Hop board book series. In this accessible series perfectly crafted for babies (and...

An R&B singer and a corporate executive find love that hits the right notes in this romance by Kristina Forest, USA Today bestselling author of The Partner Plot....

52 Walker presents THE WANDA COLEMAN SONGBOOK EP, produced by Cauleen Smith on the occasion of her exhibition at 52 Walker, New York, on view...

The world's oddest drag artist This book is an intimate and in-depth look into the life of Yvie Oddly, winner of season eleven of RuPaul's...

A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll...

In this unusual and inventive picture book that riffs on the language and rhythms of old New Orleans, noted picture book biographer Jonah Winter (Dizzy, Frida, You...

In At the Vanguard of Vinyl, Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz...

The definitive photographic celebration of John Coltrane's life and music, featuring exclusive contributions written by Ravi Coltrane, Wayne Coyne, Dev Hynes, Phil Lesh, Julie Mehretu,...

Considered the foremost exponent of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra mastered a wide array of styles that spanned jazz, R&B, experimental, and chamber works. In his 45-year...

The award-winning, platinum selling rapper, songwriter, and television personality shares her unforgettable story of coming of age in Miami, her inevitable rise to stardom, and...

Opening with David Mancuso's seminal "Love Saves the Day" Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s--from...

From pirate radio to Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage, journalist and rapper Franklyn Addo pens an extraordinary narrative of the history, present and future of Grime music....

"Black Boys Like Me ignited parts of me I honestly didn't believe any book could ever know." --Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Startlingly honest, bracing personal essays...

The story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding membersDennis Coles--aka Ghostface Killah--is a co-founder of the...