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.
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