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.…”

On jazz : a personal journey / by Shipton, Alyn

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