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Title:

The Oxford companion to jazz / edited by Bill Kirchner.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xi, 852 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Jazz.
Jazz--History and criticism.
Jazz musicians.
Jazz singers.

Other Authors:

Kirchner, Bill.

Notes:

Originally published: 2000. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

African roots of jazz / Samuel A. Floyd Jr. -- European roots of jazz / William H. Youngren -- Ragtime then and now / Max Morath -- The early origins of jazz / Jeff Taylor -- New York roots : black broadway, James Reese Europe, early pianists / Thomas L. Riis -- The blues in jazz / Bob Porter -- Bessie Smith / Chris Albertson -- King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet : Ménage à Trois, New Orleans style / Bruce Boyd Raeburn -- Louis Armstrong / Dan Morgenstern -- Bix Beiderbecke / Digby Fairweather -- Duke Ellington / Mark Tucker -- Hot music in the 1920s : the "jazz age", appearances and realities / Richard M. Sudhalter -- Pianists of the 1920s and 1930s / Henry Martin -- Coleman Hawkins / Kenny Berger -- Lester Young / Loren Schoenberg.

ISBN:

9780195183597
9780195183597 (pbk.)
0195183592 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)59352624

Locations:

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)