The world of Count Basie / by Dance, Stanley

Table of Contents: “…Count Basie (bandleader and piano) -- Jimmy Rushing (vocalist) -- Lester "Prez" Young (tenor saxophone and clarinet) -- Buck Clayton (trumpet and arranger) -- Jo Jones (drums) -- Eddie Durham (trombone, guitar, and arranger) -- Earle Warren (alto saxophone) -- Dicky Wells (trombone and arranger) -- Harry "Sweets" Edison (trumpet) -- Buddy Tate (tenor saxophone and clarinet) -- Helen Humes (vocalist) -- Snooky Young (trumpet) -- Joe Newman (trumpet) -- Preston Love (alto saxophone) -- Marshall Royal (alto saxophone and clarinet) -- Lockjaw Davis (tenor saxophone) -- Frank Wess (flute, saxophones, and arranger) -- Frank Foster (tenor saxophone and arranger) -- Joe Williams (vocalist) -- Al Grey (trombone) -- Sonny Cohn (trumpet) -- Eric Dixon (tenor saxophone, flute, and arranger) -- Bobby Plater (alto saxophone and arranger) -- Richard Boone (trombone and vocal) -- Nat Pierce (bandleader, piano, and arranger) -- Jay McShann (bandleader, piano, and vocal) -- Gene Ramey (bass) -- Gus Johnson, Jr. …”

The invention of ethnicity /

Table of Contents: “…Ferraro -- Comping for Count Basie / Albert Murray -- 'Is ethnicity obsolete?' …”
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Come in and hear the truth : jazz and race on 52nd Street / by Burke, Patrick Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…First for the musicians, then for the world: the birth of Swing Street -- Let's have a jubilee: 52nd Street goes commercial -- Here comes the man with the jive: Stuff Smith -- A little law and order in my music: the John Kirby Sextet and Maxine Sullivan -- Swingin' down that lane: 52nd Street at the height of the swing era -- Making it into the big time: Count Basie, Joe Marsala, and "mixed" bands -- This conglomeration of colors: bebop comes to Swing Street -- Apples and oranges: 52nd street and the jazz war.…”

The jazz tradition / by Williams, Martin, 1924-1992

Table of Contents: “…Duke Ellington: form beyond form -- 11. Count Basie and Lester Young: style beyond swing -- 12. …”
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Big band jazz in black West Virginia, 1930-1942 / by Wilkinson, Christopher, 1946-

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Jazz makers : vanguards of sound / by Shipton, Alyn

Table of Contents: “…The pioneers: Scott Joplin ; Jelly Roll Morton ; King Oliver ; Louis Armstrong ; Sidney Bechet ; Bix Beiderbecke ; Bessie Smith ; More pioneers to remember -- Swing bands and soloists: Fletcher Henderson ; Duke Ellington ; Cab Calloway ; Benny Goodman ; Artie Shaw ; Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey ; Count Basie ; Ella Fitzgerald ; Billie Holiday ; Lester Young ; Coleman Hawkins ; More swing bandleaders and soloists to remember -- The piano giants: Albert Ammons ; Fats Waller ; Earl "Fatha" Hines ; Mary Lou Williams ; Teddy Wilson ; Art Tatum ; Oscar Peterson ; More piano giants to remember -- Birth of bebop, the modern jazz revolution: Dizzy Gillespie ; Charlie Parker ; Miles Davis ; Bud Powell ; Thelonious Monk ; Art Blakey ; Charles Mingus ; Sarah Vaughan ; More modern jazz pioneers to remember -- Cool jazz, hard bop, and fusion: John Coltrane ; Sonny Rollins ; Gerry Mulligan ; Stan Getz ; Ornette Coleman ; Bill Evans ; Herbie Hancock ; Chick Corea ; John McLaughlin ; Anthony Braxton ; More cool, hard bop and fusion players to remember -- A century of jazz: David Murray ; Michael Brecker ; Jan Garbarek ; Wynton Marsalis ; Geri Allen ; Joshua Redman ; More contemporary jazz players to remember.…”
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The Parisian jazz chronicles : an improvisational memoir / by Zwerin, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Poop and hasse-oles : barbershops & whorehouses : Stevie Wonder -- Dexter Gordon : life and death in the margin : barbershops & whorehouses : Ornette Coleman and Waylon Jennings -- Planeland : bringing up baby : barbershops & whorehouses : Count Basie -- The slush pump and the silent letter : barbershops & whorehouses : Elvin Jones -- Timothy Leary : voltage smart : barbershops & whorehouses : Janos -- jazz in Siberia : left-handed times -- barbershops & whorehouses -- Willy (Mink) DeVille -- Chet Baker : how about a sniffette? …”
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T.O.B.A. time : Black vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America / by Scott, Michelle R., 1974-

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Cultural codes : makings of a Black music philosophy : an interpretive history from spirituals to hip hop / by Banfield, William C., 1961-

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A & R pioneers : architects of American roots music on record / by Ward, Brian, 1961-, Huber, Patrick

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Murray talks music : Albert Murray on jazz and blues / by Murray, Albert

Table of Contents: “…: interview with Paul Devlin, 2006 -- "Flexibility, the art of adapting, and the necessity of continuous creation" : a talk on jazz, delivered in Morocco, 1956 or 1958 -- "We really integrated Fifty-second Street" : interview with John Hammond, 1982 -- "No better example of the ungaudy" : biographical sketch of Count Basie, 2004 -- "It's a mistake to think of any art form in terms of progress" : interview with Susan Page, 1997 -- "There was no gap : educational gap, cultural gap, between music education and what Negroes were doing in music" : interview with Robert G. …”
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All over the map : true heroes of Texas music / by Corcoran, Michael, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Lust for love -- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (Orange). Count Basie of the blues -- Houston -- Geto Boys and D.J. …”
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Visions of jazz : the first century / by Giddins, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Jimmie Lunceford (For listeners, too). Count Basie/Lester Young (Westward Ho! and back). Jimmy Rushing (Swinging the Blues). …”
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