"Tonight at Noon" is the story of the tumultuous, passionate marriage of Sue and Charlie Mingus, and of Sue's personal odyssey inside and outside its confines.

From the mid-1940s until his death in 1979, Charles Mingus created an unparalleled body of recorded work, most of which remains available in the 21st century. W

This very popular series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, together with resource ideas and materials for the classroom.

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts

Challenges conventional jazz historiography by demonstrating the role of big bands in the development of jazz. This book describes how jazz musicians found big