LibGuides: Black Studies: Jazz

Jazz History

The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780195126532
Publication Date: 1998-12-17
Also available in hard copy under call number ML3506 .G54 1997
A New History of Jazz by Alyn Shipton
Call Number: ML3506 .S47 2001
ISBN: 082646338X
Publication Date: 2002-12-01
Jazz : a history of America's music by Geoffrey C. Ward; Ken Burns
Call Number: ML 3506 .W37 2000
ISBN: 067944551X
Publication Date: 2000-11-07
The Cambridge Companion to Jazz by Mervyn Cooke (Editor); Jonathan Cross (Contribution by); David Horn (Editor)
Call Number: ML3506 .C29 2002
ISBN: 9780521663205
Publication Date: 2003-01-09

Biographies

Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout
Call Number: ML419.A75 T43 2009
ISBN: 9780151010899
Publication Date: 2009-12-02
Coltrane : the story of a sound by Ben Ratliff
Call Number: ML419.C645 R37 2007
ISBN: 9780374126063
Publication Date: 2007-09-18
So what : the life of Miles Davis by John Szwed
Call Number: ML419.D39 S98 2002
ISBN: 0684859823
Publication Date: 2002-10-29
Duke : a life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout
Call Number: ML410.E44 T38 2014
ISBN: 9781592407491
Publication Date: 2013-10-17
Ella Fitzgerald : A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz, Updated Edition by Stuart Nicholson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780415971195
Publication Date: 2004-06-17
Groovin' High : The Life of Dizzy Gillespie by Alyn Shipton
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780195144109
Publication Date: 2001-07-19
Myself When I Am Real : The Life and Music of Charles Mingus by Gene Santoro
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780195147117
Publication Date: 2001-11-29
Thelonious Monk : the life and times of an American original by Robin D. G. Kelley
Call Number: ML417.M846 K46 2009
ISBN: 9780684831909
Publication Date: 2009-10-06
Bird : The Life and Music of Charlie Parker by Chuck Haddix
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780252037917
Publication Date: 2013-08-23
Dance of the infidels : a portrait of Bud Powell by Francis Paudras; Rubye Monet (Translator)
Call Number: ML417.P73 P413 1998
ISBN: 9780306808166
Publication Date: 1998-03-22
Space Is the Place : the lives and times of Sun Ra by John F. Szwed
Call Number: ML410.S978 S73 1998
ISBN: 0306808552
Publication Date: 1998-08-22
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Too Marvelous for Words : The Life and Genius of Art Tatum by James Lester
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780195096408
Publication Date: 1995-07-13
Someone to Watch Over Me : The Life and Music of Ben Webster by Frank Büchmann-Møller
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780472033607
Publication Date: 2008-12-15
Being Prez : The Life and Music of Lester Young by Dave Gelly
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781845534691
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Reading jazz : a gathering of autobiography, reportage, and criticism from 1919 to now by Robert Gottlieb (Editor)
Call Number: ML3507 .R44 1996
ISBN: 9780679442516
Publication Date: 1996-11-12

Critical Writings on Jazz

What Is This Thing Called Jazz? : African American Musicians As Artists, Critics, and Activists by Eric Porter
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780520218727
Publication Date: 2002-01-31
The power of Black music : interpreting its history from Africa to the United States by Samuel A. Floyd
Call Number: ML3556 .F65 1995
ISBN: 9780195082357
Publication Date: 1995-07-27
John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom : Spirituality and the Music by Leonard Brown
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780195328530
Publication Date: 2010-09-09
Jazz Cultures by David Andrew Ake
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780520228870
Publication Date: 2002-01-07
Jazz and Culture in a Global Age by Stuart Nicholson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781555537272
Publication Date: 2014-06-03
Africa Speaks, America Answers : Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times by Robin D. G. Kelley
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780674046245
Publication Date: 2012-02-27
A Power Stronger Than Itself : The AACM and American Experimental Music by George E. Lewis
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780226476957
Publication Date: 2008-05-15
Also available in hard copy under call number ML3508.8.C5 L48 2008
Digging : The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music by Amiri Baraka
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780520257153
Publication Date: 2009-05-26
Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans by Richard Brent Turner; Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0253353572
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
The Shadow and the Act : Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism by Walton M. Muyumba
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780226554242
Publication Date: 2009-07-01
The Product of Our Souls : Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace by David W. Gilbert
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781469622699
Publication Date: 2015-05-18