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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Backstory in blue	John Fass Morton	"It may be that the song most baby boomers identify from July 1956 is a simple twelve-bar blues, hyped on national television by a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley and his handlers. But it is a very…	OL12047070W
Giants of jazz ; sketches by Robert Galster	Studs Terkel	Brief biographies of thirteen jazz musicians who have made major contributions to the development of this form of music.	OL13305829W
The jazz bass book	John Goldsby	"Tim Buckley was a spectacularly accomplished vocalist and arguably the most innovative, multi-dimensional songwriter of his generation. He attained popular stardom in the '60s, tumbled into obscurit…	OL13597844W
The Glass Enclosure	Alyn Shipton	"Bud Powell revolutionized jazz piano in the 1940s by developing a rapidity of thought and execution hitherto matched only by pioneer bebop trumpeters and saxophonists. He combined the harmonic innov…	OL15119858W
Obama Music	Bonnie Greer	Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, London based author and playwright Bonnie Greer seeks to demonstrate that Barack Obama's Presidency is what she calls a 'South Side Presidency'. And that…	OL15170794W
Jazz in the bittersweet blues of life	Carl Vigeland,Wynton Marsalis	As Carl Vigeland went on tour with Wynton Marsalis and his septet, he witnessed "their relationships with their audiences, their art, and each other. At the same time, Marsalis takes us into the hear…	OL15837380W
Stomping the blues	Albert Murray	An impressionistic analysis of blues and jazz, although jazz is never mentioned except in titles. The analysis runs through history, motivation, and outcome, along with strong declarations about wha…	OL1824770W
Thriving on a riff	David Murray - undifferentiated,Graham Lock	This text explores the influence of jazz and blues in two key areas of cultural expression, literature and film, where these musics have often been inextricably linked with notions of racial identity…	OL18784718W
The Cambridge Companion to Jazz (Cambridge Companions to Music)	Horn, David,Mervyn Cooke	Notes -- Works cited -- Principal musicians cited -- Index.	OL19349878W
Message to our folks	Paul Steinbeck	"This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the …	OL19746677W
Playing changes	Nate Chinen	One of jazzs leading critics gives us an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, Playin…	OL19751152W
Free jazz/Black power	Philippe Carles	xix, 256 pages ; 24 cm	OL19997133W
The Kind of Man I Am	Nichole Rustin-Paschal	1 online resource (xvii, 243 pages)	OL20211204W
Blue Note	Richard Havers	"L'histoire en images du label de jazz américain à travers celle de ses fondateurs, de ses artistes et ses albums majeurs."--Source inconnue.	OL20882228W
Classic jazz	Floyd Levin	"Floyd Levin, an award-winning jazz writer, has personally known many of the jazz greats who contributed to the music's colorful history. In this collection of his articles, published mostly in jazz …	OL221354W
The Future of Jazz	Will Friedwald	"Jazz is now 100 years old, a venerable American institution predicated on the unpredictable. But recent signs - ranging from Ken Burn's documentary Jazz: A History of America's Music to the dominanc…	OL3276927W
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop	Christopher Raschka	Introduces the famous saxophonist and his style of jazz known as bebop.	OL79895W
Black music	Amiri Baraka	"Jones has learned—and this has been very rare in jazz criticism—to write about music as an artist."—Nat HentoffIn 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) back into the forefr…	OL8316187W
Classic Jazz	Scott Yanow	"This guide opens with the very beginnings of jazz, exploring its seeds in ragtime, early blues, and blues-infused New Orleans jazz from 1895-1916. But the heart of the classic jazz era - and this bo…	OL8563309W
This Is Our Music	Iain Anderson	This book explores who makes decisions about the value of a cultural form and on what basis by examining the impact of 1960s free improvisation on the changing status of jazz. The production, presen…	OL9174995W