San Francisco is probably best known for its hills, ubiquitous fog, dungeness crab and the Golden Gate Bridge. But jazz music's threads are similarly woven into

"This book is a tribute to the musicians and to those who make it possible for those musicians to perform in the San Francisco Bay Area."--Introd.

San Francisco's infamous Barbary Coast was one of the country's thriving centers of jazz in the early 1900s. "Jazz on the Barbary Coast" captures the incredible

Harlem of the West reveals a forgotten slice of San Francisco history and the African-American experience on the West Coast: the thriving jazz scene of the Fill

This book is about American jazz history and a very special place in San Francisco that was called Earthquake McGoon's, which was one of the longest running jaz