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Jazz Reference Sources

Jazz by Scott DeVeaux; Gary Giddins
Call Number: ML3508.G54 2009 (LC)
New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2009.
Blues Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers [with author emendations as of November, 1993] by Sheldon H. Harris
Call Number: REF +ML102 .B6 H3 1993 (RH)
New York, NY: DaCapo, 1994.
A Century of Jazz by Roy Carr
Call Number: REF ML3507 .C37 1997 (RH); ML3507 .C37 1997 (LC)
New York, NY: DaCapo, 1997.
Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash by James Ciment
Call Number: E-book
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008.
Recorded Jazz by Barry D. Kernfeld
Call Number: REF ML156.4 .J3 B66 1995 (RH)
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995.
2nd ed.
Who's Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street by John Chilton
Call Number: REF ML106 .U3 C48 1985 (RH)
New York, NY: DaCapo, 1985.
4th ed.

More Jazz

A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers by Will Friedwald
Call Number: REF ML102 .J3 F75 2010 (RH); ML102 .J3 F75 2010 (LC)
New York, NY: Pantheon, 2010.
Guinness Who's Who of Blues by Larkin, Colin
Call Number: ML102 .B6 G85 1995 (LC)
Enfield, England, Guinness, 1995.
2nd ed.
The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
Call Number: ML3506.G54 1997 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition by Tony Whyton
Call Number: ML3508 .W57 2010 (RH)
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Jazz Research and Performance Materials: A Select Annotated Bibliography by E.S. Meadows
Call Number: REF ML128 .J3 M33 1995 (RH)
New York, NY: Garland, 1995.
2nd ed.
Also available in stacks
Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History by Robert Walser (Ed.)
Call Number: ML3507.K4 1999 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz by Barry D. Kernfeld (Ed.)
Call Number: REF ML102 .J3 N48 2002 (RH)
New York, NY: Grove's Dictionaries, 2002.
2nd ed.
New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz by P. Oliver
Call Number: REF ML3556 .O456 1997 (RH); ML 3556 .O456 1997 (LC)
London: Macmillan Reference, 1997.
Some Liked It Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959 by Kristin A. McGee
Call Number: PN1995.9 .J38 M34 2009 (LC)
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009.
Traditional New Orleans : Conversations With the Men Who Make the Music by Thomas W. Jacobsen
Call Number: ML395 .J32 2011 (RH)
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.

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