About the Author

Laurent Cugny is a musician and professor of music and musicology at Sorbonne University. He has toured and recorded with Gil Evans and conducted the French Orchestre National de Jazz and is author of several books, including Eurojazzland: Jazz and European Sources, Dynamics, and Contexts.

Reviews

Laurent Cugny's Analysis of Jazz: A Comprehensive Approach is a masterful explication of what jazz is and what makes it tick. Compliments to University Press of Mississippi for bringing this important work to an American readership. Formidable and insightful.--Bruce Boyd Raeburn, curator emeritus, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University