6. Selected Books
General interest (see Section 2 for tips on finding more topics in HOLLIS)
Burnim, Mellonee and Portia K. Maultsby, ed. African American Music : An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Lamont Library, Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML3556 .A34 2006
Widener Library; Call Number: ML3508.1 .A37 2006
Cooke, Mervyn and David Horn, ed. Cambridge Companion to Jazz. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Location: Lamont Library, Loeb Music Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 3506 .C29 2002
Gelly, Dave and Tony Bacon, ed. Masters of Jazz Saxophone. London: Balaphon, 2000.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML 399 .J39 2000x
Covers numerous jazz musicians, including Charlie Parker.
Gridley, Mark. Jazz Styles: History and Analysis. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.934.57
Haydon, Geoffrey. Quintet of the Year. Toronto: MacFarlane, Walter & Ross, 2002.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 394 .H4243 2002b
Quintet comprised of Parker, Gillespie, Bud Powell, Mingus, Max Roach.
Heidkamp, Konrad. It's All Over Now: Musik Einer Generation - 40 Jahre Rock und Jazz. Berlin: Alexander Fest Verlag, 1999.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 3506 .H45 1999x
Hodeir, Andre, ed. by Jean-Louis Pautrot. The Andre Hodeir Jazz Reader. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 3506 .H615 2006
Parker, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, and others.
Horricks, Raymond. Profiles in Jazz: From Sidney Bechet to John Coltrane. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1991.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 106.4.103
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 394 .H67 1991
Kernfeld, Barry Dean. What to Listen For in Jazz. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML 3506 .K47 1995
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.944.30
Lock, Graham. Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Works of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 5414.15.51
Lowe, Allen. That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History, 1900-1950. Berkeley: Music and Arts Programs, 2001 [compact disc set also available covering 1895-1951, c2006]
Harvard does not yet own, but it's available at MIT and Boston Public Library (and others via Inter-library loan). CDs available at Loeb Music, Call numbers CD 34256, 34257, 34258, 34259.
Monson, Ingrid, ed. The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective. London: Routledge, 2003.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML3760.1 .A37 2003x
Monson, Ingrid. Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML3508 .M65 2007
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML3508 .M65 2007
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: WID-LC ML3508 .M65 2007
Monson, Ingrid. Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML 3506 .M64 1996
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.955.44
Location: Tozzer Library; Call Number: N.A.TECH. M 759 s
Porter, Eric. What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML 3508 .P67 2002
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.971.10
Perry, David. Jazz Greats. London: Phaidon, 1996.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 385 .P47 1996
Parker, Mingus, Coltrane, Davis, Coleman, and more.
Schuller, Gunther. Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.979.31
Important narrative of jazz through 1928.
---. The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-45. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML3506 .S36 1986
Multiple other locations (see title in HOLLIS)
Continuation of
Early Jazz
Shipton, Alyn. Handful of Keys: Conversations with Thirty Jazz Pianists. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 397 .S557 2004b
Note: Including with Coltrane.
Shipton, Alyn. A New History of Jazz, Revised and Updated ed. New York, London: Continuum, 2007.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 3506.S47 2007
Stearns, Marshall. The Story of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML3561.J3 S8 1970
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.982.3
One of the earliest systematic histories of jazz by a collector and scholar.
Terkel, Studs. Giants of Jazz. New York: Crowell, 1975.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 106.4.35
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 385 .T45 1975
Sampling of books on New Orleans jazz:
Logsdon, Joseph and Arnold Hirsch, Creole New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.
Location: Lamont Library, Quad Library, Tozzer Library, Widener Library; Call Number: F379.N59 C87 1992
Marquis, Donald M. In Search of Buddy Bolden. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.B65 M4
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 1674.15.53
Touchet, Leo. Rejoice When You Die: The New Orleans Jazz Funerals. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.986.75
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: GT 3211.N4 T68 1998 F
