The jazz ambassadors /

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Tropical riffs : Latin America and the politics of jazz / by Borge, Jason, 1965-

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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: “…Pitre's nominal aphasia : barbershops & whorehouses : Don Henley -- Don Budge : playing with wands : barbershops & whorehouses : Bobby McFerrin -- Steppenwolf : brilliant eccentrics : barbershops & whorehouses : Simon and Garfunkel -- Kenny G : barbershops & whorehouses : Andy Bey -- Miles Davis : a mouthful of words : barbershops & whorehouses : Ice-T -- Freddy Heineken : he brew : barbershops & whorehouses : Brad Mehldau -- serious music : kulture in the goyish Alps : barbershops & whorehouses : Roswell Rudd -- Melvin Van Peebles : gone fishing : barbershops & whorehouses : Steve Lacy -- Wayne Shorter : beyond a smile on a face -- barbershops & whorehouses : Gil Evans -- Orson Welles : patched and peeled in Mogador : barbershops & whorehouses : Dizzy Gillespie -- the International Herald Trombone.…”
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I remember jazz : six decades among the great jazzmen / by Rose, Al

Table of Contents: “…Cyr; Sharkey Bonano; Armand Hug; Earl ""Fatha"" Hines; Gene Krupa; The Exterminators: Pete Fountain and A1 Hirt; Dizzy Gillespie; Miff Mole; Clarence Williams; The Dixieland Rhythm Kings; The Brunies; Paul Barbarin; Neighborhoods; Lagniappe…”
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The history of jazz / by Gioia, Ted

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

Table of Contents: “…Albert Murray : making words swing, on and off the page / Paul Devlin -- "Art is about elegant form" : interview with Wynton Marsalis, 1994 -- "Finding ourselves in the role of elder statesmen" : interview with Dizzy Gillespie, 1985-86 -- "How did Basie come by the name Count?" …”
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Race music : black cultures from bebop to hip-hop / by Ramsey, Guthrie P.

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Thinking in jazz : the infinite art of improvisation / by Berliner, Paul

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Kerouac on Record : a Literary Soundtrack /

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