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publications

Book and articles

"The Hendrix Chord: Blues, Flexible Pitch Relationships, and Self-Standing Harmony," Popular Music 26, no. 2 (2007): 343-364.

The Thelonious Monk Reader, Oxford University Press, 2001.

"A Selection of Monk Sources," Black Music Research Journal 19, no. 2 (1999): 245-252.


"Wes Montgomery: A Study of Coherence in Jazz Improvisation," 
Jazzforschung/Jazz Research 23 (1991): 151-178.

Reviews

Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit, in Jazz Perspectives 12, no. 3 (2020): 371-74

Media in Mind, in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 60, no. 1 (2020): 174-77.

Reception of Diana Krall, Unique Jazz Phenomenon, by Zuzana Ben Lassoued-Balazsházyová, in CAML Review 47. no. 1 (2019): 57-59. 

Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present, by Timothy Taylor, in CAML Review 44, no. 3 (2016): 33-34.

Music in Range: The Culture of Canadian Campus Radio, by Brian Fauteux, in CAML Review 44, no. 2 (2016): 64-65

The Music of Joni Mitchell
, by Lloyd Whitesell, in CAML Review 37, no. 3 (2009): 32-34.


Shakin' All Over: Canadian Pop Music in the 1960sCAML Review 36, no. 2-3 (2008): 43-44.


Oliver Jones: The Musician, The Man, by Marthe Sansregret, in CAML Review 35, no. 1 (2007): 30.


"Going with the Flow: Music Streaming Services for Libraries," CAML Review 33, no. 1-2 (2005): 32-35.

One Long Tune: The Life and Music of Lenny Breau, by Ron Forbes-Roberts, in CAML Review 34, no. 3 (2006): 30-32.

"Phil Nimmons. Canadian Composers Portraits," CAML Review 34, no. 1 (2006): 54-55.


A Jazz Odyssey: The Life of Oscar Peterson, by Richard Palmer, in CAML Review 30, no. 3 (2002): 31-32.


New Grove II Online, in CAML Review 29, no. 2 (2001): 41-42.


Music Reference Services Quarterly, in CAML Newsletter 27, no. 1 (1999): 23-24.


The Land Where the Blues Began, by Alan Lomax, in Yearbook for Traditional Music (1995): 163-165.


I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, by Glen Alyn, in Ethnomusicology 40, no. 1 (1995): 97-99.

Chicago Soul, by Robert Pruter, in Notes 49, no. 1 (1992): 142-144.

Selected Musical Terms of Non-Western Cultures: A Notebook Glossary, by Walter Kaufmann, in Fontes Artis Musicae 38, no. 4 (1991): 342-343.


The Traditional Music of Britain and Ireland: A Research and Information Guide
, by James Porter, in Fontes Artis Musicae 38, no. 3 (1991): 243-244.