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Jazz heroes /
Published 1998Table of Contents: “…The story of jazz -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Thelonious Monk -- Gerry Mulligan -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Wes Montgomery -- John Coltrane.…”
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Conversations in jazz : the Ralph J. Gleason interviews /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Ted Gioia -- John Coltrane -- Quincy Jones -- Dizzy Gillespie -- John Lewis -- Milt Jackson -- Percy Heath -- Connie Kay -- Sonny Rollins -- "Philly" Joe Jones -- Bill Evans -- Horace Silver -- Duke Ellington -- Les McCann -- Jon Hendricks.…”
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Bebop to cool : context, ideology, and musical identity /
Published 2003Table 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.…”
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Bird lives : the high life and hard times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker /
Published 1996Table of Contents: “…Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- Part IV -- 'Transcription of a Bird solo' -- 'Bird at 14 months' -- 'Bird on a pony, before the move from the suburbs' -- 'Charlie strung out on a 'burn', 1945' -- 'Charlie in sunglasses performing with the Earl Fatha' Hines Orchestra, 1943' -- 'Dizzy Gillespie' -- 'Photo of Charlie used for publicity' -- 'Doris and Charlie, Birdland, 1950' -- 'Charlie and Chan Richardson, Birdland, 1950' -- 'Charlie after his stay at Camarillo State Hospital, Hollywood, 1947' -- 'Charlie with his quintet, 1947' -- 'Charlie performing with strings, Birdland, 1950' -- 'Picture of Charlie's talented hands' -- 'Charlie in Sweden, 1950' -- 'Charlie jamming with Swedish musicians, 1950' -- 'Jam session with Mingus, Monk, and Haynes, Greenwich Village, ca. 1953' -- 'Bird' -- 'Lester Young' -- 'Charlie and Red Rodney, Kansas City, 1951' -- 'Billy Eckstine and Bird' -- 'Jay McShann in Kansas City' -- 'Erroll Garner, The Haig Club, Hollywood, 1947' -- 'Howard McGhee and his trumpet' -- 'Max Roach, Chicago, ca. 1948' -- 'Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Berg's, December 1945' -- 'Candid shot of Charlie, ca. 1947' -- 'Charlie eating at a Hollywood garden party, 1951' -- 'A 'very played out Bird', Hollywood, 1952' -- 'Charlie in his coffin, Harlem, 1955' -- 'Hand-written contract between Charlie and Dial Records, February 26, 1946' -- 'Another hand-written contract with Dial Records, April 3, 1946' -- 'Another transcription of a Bird solo'.…”
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The last balladeer : the Johnny Hartman story /
Published 2012Table 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. …”
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The later swing era, 1942 to 1955 /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Music and socioeconomic characteristics -- Four masters of swing : Ella Fitzgerald ; Woody Herman ; Billy Strayhorn ; Teddy Wilson -- Big bands : Ray Anthony ; Tex Beneke ; Tiny Bradshaw ; Les Brown ; Billy Eckstine ; Les Elgart ; Dizzy Gillespie ; International Sweethearts of Rhythm ; Buddy Johnson ; Stan Kenton ; Elliot Lawrence ; Hal McIntyre ; Ray McKinley ; Lucky Millinder ; Vaughn Monroe ; Boyd Raeburn ; Buddy Rich ; Claude Thornhill ; Cootie Williams ; Gerald Wilson -- Vocalists : Cab Calloway ; June Christy ; Billy Eckstine ; Billie Holiday ; Herb Jeffries ; Peggy Lee ; Carmen McRae ; Anita O'Day ; Jimmy Rushing ; Frank Sinatra ; Kay Starr ; Sarah Vaughn ; Eddie Vinson ; Dinah Washington ; Joe Williams -- Small groups : Jonah Jones ; Louis Jordan ; Modern Jazz Quartet ; Oscar Peterson ; George Shearing ; Art Tatum ; Charlie Ventura ; Lu Watters' followers ; Bunk Johnson et al. ; Eddie Condon's Dixielanders -- A to Z.…”
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Faces in the crowd : players and writers /
Published 1992Table 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]…”
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