The first issue of Jazz Research Journal is now available, free online for a limited period from:
http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/Jazz/issue/currentContents include:
(can be downloaded as pdfs)
Simon Frith: Is jazz popular music?
Christopher May: No room for squares: A political economy of Blue Note records
George Burrows: Black, Brown and Beige and the politics of Signifyin(g): Towards a critical understanding of Duke Ellington
Matt Brennan: Failure to fuse: The jazz-rock culture war at the 1969 Newport Jazz Festival
Morris B. Holbrook: When bad things happen to great musicians: The role of ambi-diegetic jazz in three tragedepictions of artistic genius on the silver screen
Elijah Wald: Louis Armstrong loves Guy Lombardo! Acknowledging the smoother roots of jazz
