EARLY JAZZ / By Fumi Tomita / SUNY Press, 240 pp. $99 hardcover, $33.85 paperback With this book Fumi Tomita, Associate Professor of Jazz Pedagogy and Performance at the University of Massachusetts. Amherst, accomplishes in the jazz field what I did in the opera field, an updated and expanded version of an earlier book. In […]

Fumi Tomita’s Excellent “Early Jazz” Book