Literature and Arts B-82: Sayin' Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility, and Social Dialogue

5. Selected Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

[Many of these will appear in Reference sections (noted in HOLLIS)]

Carr, Ian. Jazz: The Rough Guide. London: Rough Guides, 1995.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML102.J3 C325 1995  

Carr, Ian et al. Jazz: The Essential Companion. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1987.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML102.J3 C32 1988  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.911.50  

Chilton, John. Who's Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., 1972.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 106.U3 C5 1972 

Cook, Richard. Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London, New York: Penguin, 2005.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 102.J3 C66 2005  

Feather, Leonard G. The Encyclopedia of Jazz (series in 3 volumes). New York: Horizon Press, 1976.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 46.4.28.2

Feather, Leonard G., and Ira Gitler. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Location: Lamont Library, Loeb Music Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 102.J3 F4 1999  

Filmer, Vic, comp. Jive & Swing Dictionary. Penzance: V.Filmer, [194?].
Location: Loeb Music Library [Harvard Depository]; Call Number: Mus 177.928 

Gold, Robert S. A Jazz Lexicon. New York: Knopf, 1964.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML 102.J3 G6  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.934.15

---. Jazz Talk. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 102.J3 G64 x

Jenkins, Todd. Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML102.J3 J46 2004

Holmes, Thom. Jazz. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2006.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 102.J3 H65 2006  

Kernfeld, Barry. ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. London: Macmillan, 2002.
Location: http://www.grovemusic.com.ezp1.harvard.edu/index.html
Location: Lamont Library, Loeb Music Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 102.J3 N48 2002  

Kinkle, Roger D. The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, 1900-1950. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1974.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML 102.P66 K55  
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: Thr 203.45  

---. Leading Musical Performers (popular music and jazz) 1900-1950: 2150 Biographies Updated to 1996 with Additions and Corrections. Mt.Vernon, Ind: Windmill Publications, 1996.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML 102.P66 K55 1996x  

Kirchner, Bill, ed. Oxford Companion to Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Location: Lamont Library, Quad Library; Call Number: ML 3507 .O94 2000  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.967.75  

Komara, Edward, ed. Encyclopedia of the Blues. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Location: Loeb Music Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML102.B6 E53 2006

Kunzler, Martin. Jazz-Lexikon. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1988.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 45.441

Larkin, Colin. ed. The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. London: Virgin, 2004.
Location: Loeb Music Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 102.J3 V57 2004  

Longstreet, Stephen. Jazz from A to Z: A Graphic Dictionary. Highland Park, NJ: Catbird Press, 1989.
Location: Pusey Library, Harvard Theatre Collection; Call Number: ML 102.J3 L58 1989F  

Panassie, Hughes. Dictionnaire du Jazz. Paris: A. Michel, 1980.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.968.15 

Schaal, Hans-Jurgen, et al. Jazz-standards: das Lexikon. New York: Barenreiter, 2001.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 102.J3 J27 2001 

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