The Commodore story.

Table of Contents: “…Pt. 1 (jam session) (4:25) ; (You're some) Pretty doll (Fats Waller with Eddie Condon) (2:49) ; (Back home in) Indiana (Don Byas, Slam Stewart) (5:13) ; At a Georgia camp meeting (Sidney Bechet) (3:13) -- A handful of stars: Way down yonder in New Orleans (Lester Young) (2:57) ; Dedication (Coleman Hawkins) (2:55) ; Sugar (that sugar baby o' mine) (Lee Wiley) (4:36) ; Billie's blues (Billie Holiday) (3:07) -- A handful of guest stars: My ideal (Art Tatum with Coleman Hawkins) (3:07) ; Memories of you (Ben Webster with Sid Catlett) (3:37) ; Night and day (Teddy Wilson with Edmond Hall) (2:53) ; Body and soul (Roy Eldridge with Chu Berry) (3:51) ; Smack (Benny Carter with Coleman Hawkins) (2:38) ; The world is waiting for the sunrise (Benny Goodman with Mel Powell) (2:29).…”
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Stuff Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson.

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Whisper not : the autobiography of Benny Golson / by Golson, Benny

Table of Contents: “…. ; Charles Mingus, Benny Goodman, Gigi Gryce, and Horace Silver ; Peggy Lee and Diana Ross ; Milt "Bags" Jackson, Larry Young, Joe Farrell, and Tony Williams ; Wynton Kelly and Chick Corea ; Miles Davis and Geoffrey Keezer ; Mickey Rooney, Redd Foxx, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Muhammad Ali -- Verses and a coda. …”
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Soul on soul : the life and music of Mary Lou Williams / by Kernodle, Tammy L., 1969-

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Esquire's 1945 jazz book /

American popular music from minstrelsy to MP3 / by Starr, Larry, Waterman, Christopher Alan, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Louis blues (Bessie Smith) -- That black snake moan (Blind Lemon Jefferson) -- Gospel ship (The Carter Family) -- Blue yodel no. 2 (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Wrappin' it up : the Lindy glide (Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra) -- Taking a chance on love (Benny Goodman) -- Paper doll (The Mills Brothers) -- In the mood (Glenn Miller and His Orchestra) -- New San Antonio rose (Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys) -- Brazil (Xavier Cugat and his Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra) -- Nancy with the laughing face (Frank Sinatra) -- Mambo no. 5 (Perez Prado and his Orchestra) -- Choo choo ch' boogie (Louis Jordan) -- Hoochie coochie man (Muddy Waters) -- Mama, he treats your daughter mean (Ruth Brown) -- Hound dog (Big Mama Thornton) -- It's mighty dark to travel (Bill Monroe) -- Maybellene (Chuck Berry).…”

The lady swings : memoirs of a jazz drummer / by Dodgion, Dottie, 1929-2021, Enstice, Wayne, 1943-

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Jazz / by Giddins, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Fletcher Henderson, "Blue Lou" -- Benny Goodman, "Dinah" -- Artie Shaw, "Star dust" -- Jimmie Lunceford, "'Tain't what you do (it's the way that you do it)" -- 8. …”

The war years (1941-1947) / by Fitzgerald, Ella

Table of Contents: “…Flying home (Take B) / Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Sid Robin (2:25) -- Stone cold dead in the market / Frederick Hendricks (2:37) -- Petootie pie / Raymond Leveen, Lorenzo Pack, Frank Paparelli (2:35) -- You won't be satisfied (until you break my heart) / Freddy James, Larry Stock (2:52) -- The frim fram sauce / Joe Ricardel, Redd Evans (3:11) -- I'm just a lucky so and so / Mack David, Duke Ellington (2:53) -- I didn't mean a word I said / Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh (3:16) -- For sentimental reasons / Deek Watson, William Best (3:07) -- It's a pity to say goodnight / William Gordon Reid (2:37) -- Guilty / Gus Kahn, Harry Akst, Richard Whiting (3:10) -- Sentimental journey / Bud Green, Les Brown, Ben Homer (3:15) -- A Sunday kind of love / Barbara Belle, Louis Prima, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes (3:12) -- That's my desire / Helma Kresa, Carroll Loveday (2:59) -- Oh, lady be good / George & Ira Gershwin (3:13) -- Don't you think I ought to know / William Johnson, Melvin Wettergreen (3:06) -- You're breakin' in a new heart / Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl (2:25) -- I want to learn about love / Lester Lee, Allan Roberts (2:21) -- That old feeling / Lew Brown, Sammy Fain (2:24) -- My baby likes to bebop (and I like to bebop too) / Walter Bishop (2:39) -- No sense / Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Brown (2:56) -- How high the moon (1st take) / Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton (3:18) -- How high the moon (3rd take) / Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton (3:13).…”
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R. Crumb's heroes of blues, jazz, & country / by Calt, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Alex Hill -- Joe Venuti -- Fletcher Henderson -- Jimmy Noone -- Benny Goodman -- Pioneers of Country Music -- Andy Palmer of Jimmie Johnson's String Band -- Eck Robertson and Family -- Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters -- Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers -- Fiddlin' John Carson and His Virginia Reelers -- Earl Johnson and His Dixie Entertainers -- Carter Family -- Fiddlin' Doc Roberts Trio -- Ted Gossett of Ted Gossett's String Band -- Jimmie Rodgers -- Harry "Mac" McClintock -- Dr. …”

Visions of jazz : the first century / by Giddins, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Fats Waller (Comedy tonight) -- pt. 3: A popular music. Benny Goodman (The mirror of swing). Jimmie Lunceford (For listeners, too). …”
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Essential jazz : the first 100 years / by Martin, Henry, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Overview: a decade of swing : Social upheavals in the 1930s -- The big band in the swing era : Instrumentation, technique, and arrangement ; Big-band terms ; The changing role of the rhythm section -- Territory bands : Kansas City ; Mary Lous Williams and the Clouds of Joy -- Count Basie : Jo Jones: modernizing the drums -- Lester Young : Jazz performance terms -- Benny Goodman: king of swing : Race relations in early jazz ; Gene Krupa ; Charlie Christian -- Ellington after the Cotton Club : Building on the band ; Changes for the better ; The 1940s and beyond -- Influential big bands of the swing era -- Swing-era Stylists : Word War II and the "all-girl" bands ; Coleman Hawkins ; Roy Eldridge ; Jack Teagarden ; Earl Hines ; Teddy Wilson ; Benny Carter ; Billie Holiday -- Summary of the features of swing…”

Jazz : the Smithsonian anthology.