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National Jazz Month

April

A Hilton M. Briggs Library Resource Guide
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Selected Reference Sources - Located in the Reference Area on the Main Level
 

Call Number

Title / Author

REF

ML102 .J3 F39 1999

The biographical encyclopedia of jazz / Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler

REF

ML395 .B36 1996

American musicians II: seventy-two portraits in jazz / Whitney Balliet

REF

ML102 .J3 C325 1995

Jazz: the rough guide / Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather and Brian Priestley

REF
ML102 .J3 C6 1989

The Guinness jazz companion /  Peter Clayton, Peter Gammond

REF
ML102 .J3 N48 1988

The New Grove dictionary of jazz / edited by Barry Kernfeld

REF

ML128.S3 L39i

American musicians: fifty-six portraits in jazz / Whitney Balliett

REF
ML106 .U3 C5 1979

Who's who of jazz: Storyville to Swing Street / John Chilton

REF

ML102 .P66 K55

The complete encyclopedia of popular music and jazz, 1900-1950 / Roger D. Kinkle

REF

ML3561 .J3 F4e

The encyclopedia of jazz in the sixties / Leonard Feather

REF

ML3561 .J3 F42

The encyclopedia of jazz in the seventies / Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler

REF

ML390 .B8b 1962

The blue book of Tin Pan Alley, a human interest encyclopedia of American popular music / Jack Burton

REF

ML102 .J3 G6

A jazz lexicon

REF

ML3561 .J3 E55 1960

The encyclopedia of jazz / appreciations by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and John Hammond

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Selected Print Materials

    Jazz Musicians
 

Call Number

Title / Author

ML419.A75 A3 1999

Upper Level

Louis Armstrong, in his own words : selected writings / Louis Armstrong ; edited and with an introduction and appendix by Thomas Brothers ; annotated index by Charles Kinzer.

ML419.A75 L68 1999

Upper Level

The Louis Armstrong companion : eight decades of commentary / edited by Joshua Berrett.

ML420.F52 N5 1994

Upper Level

Ella Fitzgerald : a biography of the first lady of jazz / Stuart Nicholson.

ML419.P4 W65 1996

Upper Level

Charlie Parker : his music and life / Carl Woideck.

M22.M67 D3

 Upper Level

Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton : the collected piano music / Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton ; [collected and edited by] James Dapogny.

ML420.S667 A7 2003

Upper Level

Bessie / Chris Albertson. [biography of Bessie Smith]

ML419.Y7 P7 2005

 Upper Level

Lester Young / Lewis Porter.

ML410.E44 L39 2001

Upper Level

Duke Ellington and his world : a biography / A.H. Lawrence.

ML417.H5 D4

Upper Level

The world of Earl Hines / Stanley Dance.

ML419.H45 C53 1995

Upper Level

Woody Herman : chronicles of the Herds / William T. Clancy with Audree Coke Kenton ; foreword by Steve Allen.

ML419.G54 S55 1999

Upper Level

Groovin’ high : the life of Dizzy Gillespie / Alyn Shipton.

ML419.G48 M34 1996

Upper Level

Stan Getz : a life in jazz / Donald L. Maggin.

ML420.H58 N53 1995

Upper Level

Billie Holiday / Stuart Nicholson.

ML419.C645 P65 1998

Upper Level

John Coltrane : his life and music / Lewis Porter.

ML410.S9325 H35 1996

Upper Level

Lush life / a biography of Billy Strayhorn / David Hajdu.

ML420.V3 G7 1993

Upper Level

Sassy : the life of Sarah Vaughan / by Leslie Gourse.

ML3792 .C66 2003

Upper Level

Blue Note Records : the biography / Richard Cook.

ML385 .L394 2003

 Upper Level

Friends along the way : a journey through jazz / Gene Lees.

ML395 .E572 2004

Upper Level

Jazzwomen : conversations with twenty-one musicians / Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse ; preface by Cobi Narita and Paul Ash.

ML400 .J24 2005

Upper Level

A bad woman feeling good : blues and the women who sing them / Buzzy Jackson.

ML385 .G53 1998

Upper Level

Visions of jazz : the first century / Gary Giddins.

ML87 .S35 2004

Upper Level

Jazz in black & white : the photographs of Duncan Schiedt / Duncan Schiedt.

PS228.J39 Y34 2006

Upper Level

Fascinating rhythm : reading jazz in American writing / David Yaffe. [Jazz in literature]

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Internet Resources
 
Web Site Title Web Address
Jazz Fest http://www.jazzfest.com/
MidNiteSun (reference site for jazz) http://www.midnitesun.co.uk/
Outside Shore Music (primer for improvization) http://www.outsideshore.com/primer/primer/
Red Hot Jazz (history of early jazz) http://www.redhotjazz.com/
42 Explore: Jazz http://42explore.com/jazz.htm
BBC Music: Jazz http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/jazz/
Jazz Review Magazine http://www.jazzreview.com/
PBS Kids: Jazz http://pbskids.org/jazz/
PBS series: Jazz http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Worldwide Internet Music from Indiana University http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/jazz.html
Swing Music Net http://www.swingmusic.net/
Down Beat Magazine http://www.downbeat.com/
Big Band Jazz http://www.bigbandjazz.net/
Jazz Festival Finder for the US and Canada http://www.festivalfinder.com/jazz/

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Search Terms / Electronic Resources
Listed below are terms you may wish to try using while searching various print and electronic resources.
 
Search Terms
Electronic Resources
  • Jazz
  • Jazz Bands
  • Big Bands
  • Swing
  • Be-Bop
  • Fusion
  • Ragtime
  • Composer
  • Popular Music
  • Improvization
  • Jam Session
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SDLN Catalog

WWW Search Engines and Meta- Search Engines 

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Content contributed April 4, 2007 by Elizabeth Fox
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