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Reference

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz by Barry Kernfeld (Editor)
Call Number: R 781.65 N532G 2001
Publication Date: 2001
The Cambridge Companion to Jazz by Mervyn Cooke (Editor) et al
Call Number: R 781.65 C178
Publication Date: 2003
Contemporary Musicians
Call Number: ebook
An ongoing series from Gale covering musicians in a variety of genres.

History & Criticism

Why Jazz Happened by Marc Myers
Call Number: 781.655 M996W, ebook
Publication Date: 2012
Jazz/Not Jazz by David Ake (Editor); Charles Hiroshi Garrett (Editor); Daniel Goldmark (Editor)
Call Number: 781.65 J42N
Publication Date: 2012
Eurojazzland by Luca Cerchiari (Editor) et al
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2012
Knowing Jazz by Ken Prouty
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 161703164X
Publication Date: 2011
Africa Speaks, America Answers by Robin D. G. Kelley
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2012
Penguin Jazz Guide by Brian Morton; Richard Cook
Call Number: 781.650266 M889P
Publication Date: 2010-12-28
Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet by Randall Sandke
Call Number: 781.6509 S217W
Publication Date: 2010-01-25
Blue moment : Miles Davis's Kind of blue and the remaking of modern music by Richard Williams
Call Number: 781.65092 D263YW
Publication Date: 2010-04-12
Jazz Matters by David Andrew Ake
Call Number: 781.655 A313J, also ebook
Publication Date: 2010
Cuttin' Up: how early jazz got America's ear by Court Carney
Call Number: 781.652 C289C
Publication Date: 2009
Big Ears: listening for gender in jazz studies by Nichole T. Rustin
Call Number: 781.65082 B592
Publication Date: 2008
Jazz Diplomacy by Lisa E. Davenport
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2010
Pathways to Unknown Worlds - Sun-Ra by Anthony Elms (Editor) et al
Call Number: 781.65092 S957YC
Publication Date: 2007
Blowin' Hot and Cool by John Gennari
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2006
Is Jazz Dead? by Stuart Nicholson
Call Number: 781.65 N628I
Publication Date: 2005
Jazz by Scott Yanow
Call Number: 781.650973 Y24J
Publication Date: 2005
The Velvet Lounge: on late Chicago jazz by Gerald Majer
Call Number: 781.6509773 M233V
Publication Date: 2005
Jazz Consciousness by Paul Austerlitz
Call Number: 781.65089 A934J
ISBN: 0819567825
Publication Date: 2005
Jazz [videorecording] : a film by Ken Burns
Call Number: VIDEO 781.65 J42
Publication Date: 2004
Jazz Cultures by David Andrew Ake
Call Number: 781.65 A313J
Publication Date: 2002
Jazz Modernism by Alfred Appel
Call Number: 781.653 A646J
Publication Date: 2002
What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists by Eric Porter
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2002

Pedagogy and Repertoire

Jazz Standards by Ted Gioia
Call Number: 781.65016 G495J
Publication Date: 2012
Jazz by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (Produced by)
Call Number: R 781.650922 J42S
ISBN: 9780970494221
Publication Date: 2010
Icons among us [videorecording] : jazz in the present tense by Benevento, Marco
Call Number: VIDEO 781.65 I17
Publication Date: 2009
Teaching Improv in Your Jazz Ensemble by Zachary B. Poulter
Call Number: 785.065 P876T
Publication Date: 2008
Preservation Hall by Shannon Brinkman (Photographer); Eve Abrams
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2011-03-29
Moving to Higher Ground by Geoffrey Ward; Wynton Marsalis; Geoffrey C. Ward
Call Number: 781.65117 M363M
Publication Date: 2008
Jazz Scholarship and Pedagogy by Eddie S. Meadows
Call Number: 781.65 M482J 2006
Publication Date: 2005
Herbie Hancock [videorecording] : possibilities
Call Number: VIDEO 781.65 H534
Publication Date: 2006
Temporarily shelved at Reserve.
Understanding Jazz by Tom Piazza; Wynton Marsalis (Introduction by)
Call Number: 781.65117 P584U
Publication Date: 2005
Jazz Pedagogy by Dunscomb, J. Richard
Call Number: 781.65071 D926J
Publication Date: 2002-12-01
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis
Call Number: 782.421643 D261B
Publication Date: 1998
Duke Ellington: his life in jazz with 21 activities by Stephanie Stein Crease
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2009

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