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 |