GENERAL TEXTS
AUTHOR TITLE PUBLISHER
Allyn Shipton A New History of Jazz Continuum
Paul F. Berliner Thinking in Jazz University of Chicago Press
Ian Carr/Digby Fairweather/Brian Priestly Jazz: The Essential Companion  Prentice Hall Press
John Miller Chernoff African Rhythm and African Sensibility University of Chicago Press
James Lincoln Collier The Making of Jazz  Houghton Mifflin
Richard Cook/Brian Morton The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette Penguin Books
Francis Davis Bebop and Nothingness : Jazz and Pop at the End of the Century Schirmer Books
Scott DeVeaux The Birth of Bebop:  A Social and Musical History University of California Press
Leonard Feather The New Encyclopedia of Jazz Bonanza
Leonard Feather The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties Horizon
Leonard Feather/Ira Gitler The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies Bonanza
Gary Giddins Visions of Jazz Oxford University Press
Ted Goia The History of Jazz Oxford University Press
Ted Goia West Coast Jazz Oxford University Press
Joe Goldberg  Jazz Masters of the Fifties Collier Paperback
Mark C. Gridley Jazz Styles Prentice-Hall
Richard B. Hadlock Jazz Masters of the Twenties Collier Paperback
Nat Hentoff American Music Is Da Capo
Dave Jasen/Trebor Tichenor Rags and Ragtime Seabury Press
Barry Kernfeld The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz St. Martin's Press
Gene Lees Cats of Any Color:  Jazz, Black and White Oxford University Press
John Litwiler The Freedom Principle:  Jazz After 1958 Quill Paperback
Benjamin Looker BAG.  "Point At Which Creation Begins": The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis Missouri Historical Society Press
Kenny Mathieson Giant Steps: Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz 1945-1965 Payback Press
Dan Morgenstern Living With Jazz Pantheon Books
Albert Murray Stomping the Blues Vintage Paperback
Lewis Porter/Michael Ullman/Edward Hazell Jazz From Its Origins to the Present Prentice Hall Books
Pauline Rivelli/Robert Levin Black Giants Da Capo
David Rosenthal Hard Bop: Black Music in the 1950's and 1960's Oxford University Press
Ross Russell Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest University of California Press
Gunther Schuller Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development Oxford University Press
Gunther Schuller The Swing Era  Oxford University Press
Nat Shapiro/Nat Hentoff Hear Me Talkin' to Ya Dover
Arnold Shaw 52nd St: The Street of Jazz Da Capo
George Simon The Big Bands MacMillan
Peter Sylvester A Left Hand Like God (A History of Boogie Woogie Piano) Da Capo
Eileen Southern The Music of Black Americans W. W. Norton
A. B. Spellman Black Music: Four Lives Schocken Books
Rex Stewart Jazz Masters of the Thirties Collier Paperback
Richard M. Sudhalter Lost Chords: The Contributions of White Musicians to Jazz 1915-1945 Oxford University Press
Martin Williams Jazz Masters of New Orleans Collier Paperback
Martin Williams Jazz Masters in Transition: 1957-69 Collier Paperback
Martin Williams The Jazz Tradition Oxford University Press
 
 
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