Dizzy Gillespie : his life & times / by McRae, Barry

“…Dizzy Gillespie : his life and times.…”

To be, or not ... to BOP : memoirs / by Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993

Jazz people / by Brask, Ole

Conversations with jazz musicians.

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Jazz spoken here : conversations with twenty-two musicians / by Enstice, Wayne, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Mose Allison -- Art Blakey -- Ruby Braff -- Anthony Braxton --Bob Brookmeyer -- Dave Brubeck -- Ray Bryant -- Larry Coryell -- Mercer Ellington -- Bill Evans -- Gil Evans -- Tommy Flanagan -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Chico Hamilton -- Lee Konitz -- Charles Mingus -- Joe Pass -- Sonny Stitt -- Gábor Szabó -- Clark Terry -- Henry Threadgill -- Bill Watrous.…”

Bebop to cool : context, ideology, and musical identity / by Meadows, Eddie S.

Table of Contents: “…I: New thoughts, new directions -- Sociocultural context -- Ideology -- Musical appropriation -- The transformation to bebop -- II: Bebop: Articulating language and identity -- Playing bebop -- General musical characteristics of bebop -- Bebop scales -- The musical language of Dizzy Gillespie -- The musical language of Charlie Parker -- The musical language of Thelonious Monk -- III: Articulating language and identity -- Cool jazz -- The musical language of Miles Davis -- The musical language of Stan Getz -- The musical language of Lennie Tristano.…”

Living with jazz / by Morgenstern, Dan

Table of Contents: “…Armstrong and Ellington -- Profiles and portraits: James Reese Europe -- Paul Whiteman -- Hot Lips Page -- Eddie Condon -- Earl Hines -- Roy Eldridge "Little Jazz" -- Bunny Berigan -- Lionel Hampton -- Jo Jones -- Milt Hinton -- Vic Dickenson -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Clark Terry -- Billy Taylor -- Miles Davis -- Charles Mingus -- Gene Ammons -- Dinah Washington -- Bill Evans -- Paul Desmond -- Bob Brookmeyer -- Dick Wellstood -- Ornette Coleman -- Charlie Haden -- Freddie Hubbard -- Warren Vaché -- Liner notes: Ma Rainey -- Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden -- Fats Waller -- Art Tatum -- Coleman Hawins -- Ben Webster -- Jack Teagarden -- Pee Wee Russell -- Bobby Hackett -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Lester Young -- Charlie Parker -- Thelonious Monk -- Sarah Vaughan -- Sonny Stitt -- Dexter Gordon -- Jimmy Rowles -- Stan Getz -- John Coltrane -- Tommy Flanagan -- Martial Solal -- Ruby Braff -- Dick Hyman -- Dave McKenna -- Svend Asmussen -- Joe Lovano -- Record reviews: Bessie Smith -- The Original Dixieland jazz Band -- The Chicagoans (1928-1930) -- Jimmie Lunceford -- Count Basie -- Thad Jones -- Benny Carter -- Dexter Gordon -- Lee Konitz -- Houston Person -- Barry Harris -- Jaki Byard -- Wes Montgomery -- Caught in the act: Erroll Garner -- Bud Powell -- Cecil Taylor -- Harry Edison -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Miles Davis -- Jazz at the Philharmonic -- Phil Woods -- Ira Sullivan -- Joe Turner -- Ornette Coleman -- Mary Lou Williams -- Festivals and events: Newport 1960 -- Birdland -- Lester Leaps in -- Eubie Blake -- Washington -- The White House -- Ann Arbor -- Breakfast with champions -- Woody's 40th -- Trumpet Encounter -- Recording jazz: Recorded jazz -- Discography, the thankless science -- The Commodore story -- The Hot Record Society -- The birth of Blue Note -- Keynote Sessions -- Review of "The essential jazz records, V. 1: ragtime to swing / Max Harrison, Charles Fox, and Eric Thacker -- A new standard for reissues -- The outreach of jazz: Jazz and the arts -- Hot chocolates -- Jazz and dance -- Jazz on film -- Jazz and television -- Controversies -- Not by choice -- Cats and categories -- The Conover controversy -- Integrating jazz -- Titans of the tenor sax -- In defense of commercialism.…”

Profiles in jazz : from Sidney Bechet to John Coltrane / by Horricks, Raymond, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Sidney Bechet -- Art Hodes -- Budd Johnson -- Charlie Shavers -- Art Tatum and Ben Webster -- Freddie Green -- Arnett Cobb -- George Gershwin -- Mel Powell -- Jimmy Blanton -- Ellington -- 1956: a jazz annus mirabilis -- Gil Evans and Dizzy Gillespie -- Clint Eastwood and Bird!, the movie -- Al Haig -- Miles Davis -- Buddy De Franco -- Sarah Vaughan -- Gerry Mulligan -- Roy Haynes -- Sonny Rollins -- Britt Woodman-- Louie Bellson -- Wynton Kelly -- Clef/Verve: a company report -- Bill Evans -- Phil Woods -- Claude Bolling -- Ornette Coleman -- Eddie Jones -- Gary Burton -- Gordon Beck -- Ray Swinfield -- Johnny O'Neal -- Richard Davis -- John Coltrane.…”

Jazz notes : interviews across the generations / by Josephson, Sanford

Table of Contents: “…Seeing Stardust : "Hoagy" Carmichael -- The joint is jumpin' : Thomas "Fats" Waller -- No joke : Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti -- One o'clock jump : William "Count" Basie -- Melody man : Jonah Jones -- God is in the house : Art Tatum -- Road warriors : Earle Warren, Howard McGhee, and Milt Hinton -- The happy singer : Helen Humes -- The religion of bebop : John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie -- Classical jazz : George Shearing -- Take five : Dave Brubeck -- Duke's man : Norris Turney -- Singing the chords : Jon Hendricks -- Traveling with King Louis : Arvell Shaw -- Beyond the big bands : Gerry Mulligan -- Musical chameleon : Dick Hyman -- Flying high : Maynard Ferguson -- Growing up with jazz : Stanley Cowell -- Horn of emotion : David Sanborn -- Jazz ambassador : Billy Taylor.…”

The last balladeer : the Johnny Hartman story / by Akkerman, Gregg

Table of Contents: “…"Exactly how I meant it" -- Growing up in Chicago : 1923-1942 -- The singing soldier : 1943-1946 -- With Earl Hines : 1946-1947 -- With Dizzy Gillespie : 1948-1949 -- Going solo : 1950-1954 -- Stars of Bethlehem : 1955-1958 -- "Two weeks" in England : 1959 to 6 March 1963 -- The mythology of a classic : 7 March 1963 -- Almost famous : 8 March 1963 to 1966 -- A long dry spell : 1967-1971 -- American lounge act, Japanese icon : 1972-1974 -- Looking bright : 1975-1977 -- Once in every life : 1978-1980 -- Leave them wanting more : 1981-1983 -- Bridges to a legacy -- Epilogue. …”

Faces in the crowd : players and writers / by Giddins, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Satchmo's nursery [Louis Armstrong] ; King of the Savoy [Chick Webb] ; The mirror of swing [Benny Goodman] ; Ghost stories [Larry Adler] ; The wizard of bop [Frank Morgan] ; Of Thad and Mel [Thad Jones and Mel Lewis] ; Juilliard dropout makes good [Miles Davis] ; Giant walks the earth [ Sonny Rollins] ; Dizzy like a fox [Dizzy Gillespie] ; Writers. Hard-boiled [James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Elmore Leonard] ; The jilting of Katherine Anne Porter ; Vlad the impaler [Vladimir Nabokov] ; A face in the crowd [Elias Canetti] ; Scat song [Kurt Vonnegut] ; Zuckerman strikes back [Philip Roth] ; Senses and sensibility [Eudora Welty] ; Appendectomy [William Faulkner] ; Fathers and son [Martin Williams, Whitney Balliet, Gunther Schuller]…”

Jazz : the Smithsonian anthology.

Jazz / by Giddins, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Jimmy Smith, "The organ grinder's swing" -- Frank Sinatra, "The birth of the blues" -- Sarah Vaughan, "Baby, won't you please come home?" -- Dizzy Gillespie, "Manteca" -- Mongo Santamaria, "Watermelon man" -- Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd, "Samba dees days" -- 17. …”