Nicholas Gebhardt　is Professor of Jazz and Popular Music Studies at Birmingham City University and Director of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research.　His work focuses on jazz and popular music in American culture, and　his publications include　Going For Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology　and　Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929.

Nichole Rustin-Paschal earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from New York University. She is the author of　The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr.　and co-editor with Sherrie Tucker of　Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies.

Tony Whyton is Professor of Jazz Studies at Birmingham City University and author of　Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition　and　Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album. As an editor, Whyton has worked as the co-editor of the　Jazz Research Journal　since 2004 and he currently co-edits the　Routledge series ‘Transnational Studies in Jazz’.