Learning the Score: A Jazz Memoir

The opportunity to document the history of jazz music exists in the stories of the artists who lived it. Today, many of those artists are getting older and we are forever losing their voices. Learning the Score is the memoirs of the legendary jazz Alto Saxophonist and Flutist James Spaulding. Spaulding's story is another opportunity to capture this American heritage, and one that would appeal to virtually any reader.


Getting his start in Indianapolis, Spaulding cut his teeth in an area of t...