Bruce Crowther's writing credits include 30 books (fiction and non-fiction), several magazine articles, some short stories and essays, a few television screenplays (a long time ago), and a stage play (fairly recently). Additionally, there have been hundreds of record reviews and several thousand encyclopedia entries.

About half of the books are crime fiction; most of the rest are divided between jazz and popular cinema. The jazz books include biographies of Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman, and books on jazz singing and big band music.

The other non-fiction books include biographies of Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum and Michelle Pfeiffer, as well as studies of myth & reality in the movies, film noir, prison movies and a history of television comedy.

It is, though, jazz that is the prime topic here.

Elsewhere on this website you will find:

- interviews exploring the lives and careers of three of today's leading jazz artists, singer René Marie, pianist David Hazeltine and tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin.

- essays on some jazz artists of the near and distant past who although gone are not forgotten by many fans. These pieces are brief assessments of the lives and careers and the artists concerned are Pete Brown, Don Byas, Ernie Caceres, Paul Gonsalves, Sonny Greer, Pete Johnson, Ike Quebec, Zutty Singleton, Tab Smith, Eddie South, Dave Tough and Cootie Williams. Following on from these are longer pieces prompted by the relatively recent deaths of distinguished figures from the world of jazz: Betty Carter and Benny Carter.

Although most of the CD reviews I have written over the years appeared in magazines, here on this website are some others. The artists appearing here are grouped alphabetically:  A - L and M - Z.

Check below for individual artists:

A Rez Abbasi, Ben Adams, Carol Akerson, Geri Allen, Thomas Winther Andersen, Leonisa Ardizzone, Al Ashley, Pablo Aslan, Nanny Assis, Gregg August

B Mildred Bailey, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Alan Barnes, Christy Baron, Danny Barrett, Ray Barretto, April Barrows, Joy Bellis, Louie Bellson, Sathima Bea Benjamin, Alison Bentley, Bill Berry, David Bixler, Tyrone Birkett, Jane Ira Bloom, Joyce Breach, Lenny Breau, Cole Broderick, Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble, Rosie Brown, Dale Bruning, Katie Bull, Donna Byrne

C Rex Cadwallader, Elliott Caine, Jason Campbell, Royce Campbell, Ana Caram, Paul Carlon, George Carroll, Liane Carroll, Joe Carter, Eva Cassidy, Catz In The Hatz, John Chin, Soesja Citroen, Holly Cole, Steve & Iqua Colson, Carri Coltrane, Eric Comstock, Carla Cook, Roz Corral, Joan Crowe, Roy Cumming

D Duduka Da Fonseca, Eddie Daniels, Daria, Roger Davidson, Jamie Davis,  Mel Davis, Brian Dee, Dick De Graaf, Thiago De Mello, Dena DeRose, Gene DiNovi, DIVA, Miles Donahue, Nancy Donnelly, Bob Dorough, Christiana Drapkin

E Madeline Eastman, Julie Edwards, Duke Ellington, Don Ellis, Carol Ettman, Connie Evingson

F Barbara Fasano, Marco Figueira, The Flying Pisanos, Paula Faour, Fabio Fonseca, Fred Fried, Jane Fuller

G Bob Gallo, Linton Garner, Gazzara, George Gee, Terry Gibbs, Lee Gibson, Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker, Marcus Goldhaber, Edsel Gomez, Sandy Graham, Mike Greensill, Brian Groder, Grupo Los Santos

H Jimmy Halperin, Barry Harris, Lafayette Harris Jr., Richie Hart, John Hart, Carol Heffler, Duke Heitger, Mark Hrlias, Nicole Henry, Buck Hill, Holly Hoffman, Fernando Holz, Sarah Hommel, J. C. Hopkins, Linda Hopkins, Bruno Hubert

J Frank Jackson, Laird Jackson, Joni Janak, Raúl Jaurena, Barbara Jay, The Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra, Ellen Johnson, Kelley Johnson, Thad Jones

K Roger Kellaway, Juliet Kelly, Nancy Kelly, Cormac Kenevey, Stacey Kent, Trudy Kerr, Ithamara Koorax, Jan Kopinski, Simone Kopmajer, Rob Koral, Ernie Krivda, Gene Krupa

L Peg LaCentra, Sofia Laiti, Karen Lane, Audrey Lavine, Bradley Leighton, Nicki Leighton-Thomas, Tom Lellis, Laurie Lewis, Dave Liebman, Art Lillard, Kerry Linder, Diane Linscott, Ingrid Lucia, Carmen Lundy

M Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra, Bill McBirnie, Eugene McDaniels, Tom McIntosh, Chris McNulty, Carmen McRae, Nancy Marano, Marguerite Mariama, René Marie, Phil Markowitz, Claire Martin, Sue Matthews, Tina May, Pablo Menéndez, Carol Mennie, Hendrik Meurkens, Dom Minasi, Monk's Music Trio, Barbara Montgomery, Moutin Reunion Quartet, Mozayik, Rob Mullins, Matt Munisteri, Mark Murphy

N Nanette Natal, National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Negroni's Trio, Hilary Noble & Rebecca Cline

O Luis Mario Ochoa, Bill O'Connell, Arturo O'Farrill, Junko Onishi

P Kat Parra, Rebecca Parris, Rosa Passos, Patrizia, Mary Pearson, Luis Perdomo, Jorge Pescara, Carlos Pingarilho, Ron Polson, Odean Pope, Jonathan Poretz, Bill Potts, Dafnis Prieto, Peter Primamore

R Natalie Rae, Del Rey, Hanna Richardson, Sherri Roberts, Carol Robbins, Tad Robinson, Bob Rodriguez, Louise Rogers, Erienne Romaine, Jim Rotondi, Jimmy Rushing, Sandi Russell, Jackie Ryan

S Glauco Sagebin, Marcelo Salazar, Spider Saloff, Michelle Samuels, Jody Sandhaus, Jim Seeley/Arturo O'Farrill, Janet Seidel, Jim Self, Vince Seneri, Ian Shaw, George Shearing, Daryl Sherman, Mark Sherman, Rebecca Shrimpton & Eric Hofbauer, Judi Silvano, Steve Slagle, Carol Sloane, Carrie Smith, Daniel Smith, Stephen Smith, Lisa Sokolov, Solar, Chip Stephens, Bob Stewart, Joan Stiles, Harri Stojka, Dave Stryker, Maxine Sullivan, Tierney Sutton, Harvie S

T Martin Taylor, Clare Teal, Clark Terry, Laura Theodore, Lisa Thorson, Toph-E & The Pussycats, Trio Da Paz, Trio Mundo, Ike Turner

V Marlene VerPlanck, Jerry Vivino, Roseanna Vitro

W Bea Wain, Wayne Wallace, Rosella Washington, Ben Webster, Frank Weder, Ezra Weiss, Magni Wentzel, Carla White, Wesla Whitfield, Tommy Whittle, Patti Wicks, Lee Wiley, Joe Williams, Deanna Witkowski, Andrea Wolper

Y Libby York

Z Denny Zeitlin, Pete Zimmer

 

- Because of time constraints, the above list of musicians is only occasionally extended but please do come back to check for additions ...

Other pages on this site include:

- links to several other interesting and useful jazz sites ... also sites dealing with other subjects that might take your fancy ...

- short stories of mine that are previously unpublished, one of them, Been Here And Gone, was inspired by blues singer Jimmy Rushing. The other, What's In A Name, has absolutely nothing to do with jazz. This is a tale of alienation and sudden, bloody death that reveals how easy it is to unwittingly cause devastating damage to those we claim to love ...

 - a gallery of drawings and paintings, mainly of jazz people ...

 

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On the next page of this site is a list of all Bruce Crowther's published books (under real and pen names), complete with ISBN numbers.

And if you like what you see here, don't forget to tell your friends.

 

Finally, an apology ...

Spammers used the email address that appeared on my previous site to such devastating effect that I am obliged to refrain from giving it here. Hence, if you want to write to me saying nice things about the site, you can't. Sorry!

 Latest update: March 2008