You got to be original, man : the music of Lester Young / by Büchmann-Møller, Frank

You just fight for your life : the story of Lester Young / by Büchmann-Møller, Frank

Masters of jazz saxophone : [the story of the players and their music] /

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The early swing era, 1930 to 1941 / by Oliphant, Dave

Table of Contents: “…NAME BLACK BANDS: Fletcher Henderson -- Bennie Moten and Count Basie -- Duke Ellington -- Jimmie Lunceford -- NAME WHITE BANDS: Benny Goodman -- Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey -- Artie Shaw -- Glenn Miller -- OTHER BLACK BANDS: Louis Armstrongo -- Luis Russell -- Chick Webb -- Earl "Fatha" Hines -- Cab Calloway -- Andy Kirk -- Lionel Hampton -- Erskine Hawkins -- Boots Douglas -- Oran "Hot Lips" Page -- Benny Carter -- Jay McShann -- OTHER WHITE BANDS: Paul Whiteman -- Casa Loma Orchestra -- Bunny Berigan -- The Bob Crosby Orchestra -- Charlie Barnet -- Gene Krupa -- Harry James -- THE SMALL SWING GROUPS: Coleman Hawkins -- Jack Teagarden -- Billie Holiday -- Lester Young -- Fats Waller -- Milton Brown -- Summa Cum Lade, et al. -- Roy Eldridge and Buster Smith.…”

Legends from camp : poems / by Inada, Lawson Fusao

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The birth (and death) of the cool / by Gioia, Ted

Table of Contents: “…-- The mystery of my parents' lifestyle -- How cool became so -- The progenitor of cool : Bix Beiderbecke -- The president of cool : Lester Young -- The prince of darkness : Miles Davis -- The signifying bunny, or the birth (and death) of the cool for kids -- Everybody acts like Miles Davis -- Live by the swoosh, die by the swoosh -- America loses its cool -- The sound of postcool music -- The postcool society -- The birth (and death) of the cool : a timeline.…”

Jazz anecdotes : second time around / by Crow, Bill, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Wild scenes -- The word "jazz" -- Beginnings -- Inventions -- Pianos -- Teachers and students -- Stage fright -- Reading music -- Hiring and firing -- Managers, agents, and bosses -- On the road -- Arrangers and arrangements -- Cutting contests -- 52nd Street -- Jazz records -- Jazz on the air -- The well-dressed jazz musician -- Prejudice -- Songs -- Goofs -- Pranks -- The put-on -- Good lines -- Nicknames -- Louis Armstrong -- Bessie Smith -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Thomas "Fats" Walker -- Eddie Condon -- Pee Wee Russell -- Duke Ellington and his orchestra -- Benny Goodman -- Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young -- Art Tatum and his children -- Joe Venuti -- Tommy Dorsey -- Lionel Hampton -- Charlie Parker -- John Birks Gillespie -- Charles Mingus -- Zoot Sims and Al Cohn -- Miles Davis and John Coltrane -- Jokes.…”

The origins of cool in postwar America / by Dinerstein, Joel, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Paris, 1949 -- Introduction: the origins of cool -- Lester Young and the birth of cool -- Humphrey Bogart and the birth of noir cool from the Great Depression -- Albert Camus and the birth of existential cool from the idea of rebellion (and the blues) -- Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir: toward a postwar cool for women -- Cool convergences, 1950: jazz, noir, existentialism -- A generational interlude: postwar II (1953-1963) and the shift in cool -- Kerouac and the cool mind: jazz and zen -- From noir cool to Vegas cool: swinging into prosperity with Frank Sinatra -- American rebel cool: Brando, Dean, Elvis -- Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis sound out cool individuality -- Hip versus cool in the Fugitive kind (1960) and Paris blues -- Lorraine Hansberry and the end of postwar cool -- Epilogue: the many lives of postwar cool.…”

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.…”

Bop apocalypse : jazz, race, the beats, and drugs / by Torgoff, Martin

Jazz / by Giddins, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Coleman Hawkins, "Body and soul" -- Count Basie / Lester Young, "Oh! lady be good" -- Benny Carter / Django Reinhardt, "I'm coming, Virginia" -- Billie Holiday, "A sailboat in the moonlight" -- Ella Fitzgerald, "Blue skies" --…”

Jazz : the Smithsonian anthology.

American Negro poetry /

Table of Contents: “…-- Russell Atkins : At war ; Irritable song ; It's here in the -- Ted Joans : Lester Young ; Voice in the crowd -- William Browne : Harlem sounds: hallelujah corner -- James A. …”