The Uncrowned King of Swing

Jeffrey Magee is a Professor and Chair of Musicology in the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His writings on jazz, ragtime, and American popular song have appeared in American Music, Lenox Avenue, International Dictionary of Black Composers, Musical Quarterly, the Cambridge History of American Music, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society.

Preface: Crossing the Tracks in Cuthbert Introduction: Out of the Jazz Tradition1: A New Negro from the Old South