Behind the Beat

Jazz Criticism by Mark Tucker

The Spring 2003 issue of the ISAM Newsletter is devoted to Mark Tucker's column Behind the Beat.

If you are interested in purchasing a copy ($10 each), please contact ISAM at isam@brooklyn.cuny.edu or calling 718-951-5655.

The following is the table of contents, with a list of subjects or items reviewed in each column:

Introduction by editors Ray Allen and Jeff Taylor

Jazz transcriptions: Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Bill Evans (November 1982)

Benny Carter, Free Jazz, Reggae International, Encyclopedia of Black Music, Rock Who’s Who, and Jazz in the Movies (May 1983)

Louis Armstrong, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins (November 1983)

Michael Jackson, Prince (November 1984)

Bill Evans, Fletcher Henderson (May 1985)

Remembering Walter C. Allen (November 1986)

New Orleans Music Since World War II, A Life in Jazz, The Key to a Jazzy Life, Steve Kuhn, Roy Eldridge (May 1987)

Songs by Alec Wilder (November 1987)

Thelonious Monk, Goin’ to Kansas City, Buck Clayton’s Jazz World, Jazzletter, Singers and the Song (May 1988)

Evaluating Ellington (November 1988)

The Swing Era, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (November 1989)

Robert Johnson, The Death of Rhythm and Blues, The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz (May 1990)

Lester Young, Jazz Anecdotes, Voices of the Jazz Age, Jazz Singing, Canta Brasil, Brazil Classics I (November 1990)

A Visit with Vincent Giordano (May 1991)

Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz, Rex Stewart, Jelly Roll Morton, Harlem Stride Piano Solos (November 1991)

Mingusology (Fall 1992)

No Commercial Potential: Frank Zappa (Fall 1993)

Art Tatum, Scott Joplin, Mahalia Jackson, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton (Fall 1994)

Thinking in Jazz, Sweet Swing Blues on the Road, Madame Jazz, Dick Wellstood, Dick Hyman (Spring 1995)

Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Smith, Erroll Garner, Dave McKenna, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Mike Mainieri (Fall 1995)

Hot Jazz and Jazz Dance, Jane Ira Bloom, Mary Lou Williams, jazz composer stamps (Spring 1996)

Louis Armstrong (Fall 1997)

Sun Ra, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis (Spring 1998)

The Jazz Singers (Smithsonian), John Coltrane (Fall 1998)

Post-Canonical Ellington (Spring 1999)

White Musicians and Their Contributions to Jazz, A Right to Sing the Blues, Jazz Casual (Fall 1999)

Mary Lou Williams, Miles Davis, Future Jazz (Spring 2000)

Seven Steps to Piano Heaven: The Artistry of Sir Roland Hanna (Fall 2000)