Soul on soul : the life and music of Mary Lou Williams / by Kernodle, Tammy L., 1969-

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The Oxford companion to jazz /

Table of Contents: “…Maher and Jeffrey Sultanof -- Swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging / Max Harrison -- The advent of bebop / Scott DeVeaux -- The New Orleans revival / Richard Hadlock -- Charlie Parker / James Patrick -- Cool jazz and West Coast jazz / Ted Gioia --…”

Digging : the Afro-American soul of American classical music / by Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014

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The collected poems of Philip Lamantia / by Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005

Table of Contents: “…Bird: Apparition of Charlie Parker --…”
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Bop apocalypse : jazz, race, the beats, and drugs / by Torgoff, Martin

Black legends of jazz.

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

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

Table of Contents: “…Spike Jones (Chasin' the birdaphone). Charlie Parker (Flying home). Dizzy Gillispie (The coup and after). …”
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Vinyl freak : love letters to a dying medium / by Corbett, John, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…, demon fuzz -- Contemporary sound series -- Beaver Harris / Don Pullen 360-degree experience, A Well-kept secret -- Mike Osborne Trio, Border Crossing -- The Three Souls, Dangerous Dan Express -- Steve Lacy, Raps -- Halki Collective, Halki Collective -- The Amram-Barrow Quartet, The Eastern scene -- Charlie Parker acetates -- Tommy "Madman" Jones, A different sound and Just friends -- New York Art Quartet, Mohawk -- Paul Gonsalves / Tubby Hayes, Just friends; Paul Gonsalves All Stars featuring Tubby Hayes, Change of setting -- Anthony Braxton, New York, Fall 1974 -- Herbie Fields Sextet, A night at Kitty's -- Air, 80° below '82 -- Guy Warren with Red Saunders Orchestra, Africa speaks-America answers! …”
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Essential jazz : the first 100 years / by Martin, Henry, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The Bebop era. revolution versus evolution : The war years and the 1940s -- Characteristics of the bebop style : A contrafact: Dizzy Gillespie's "Groovin' high" -- The historical origins of bebop : The early forties: jamming at Minton's and Monroe's ; The American Federation of Musicians strike in 1942 ; Big bands in the early 1940s ; Bebop moves to Fifty-second Street -- The architects of bebop : Charlie Parker ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Latin jazz ; Bud Powell ; Thelonious Monk…”

Jazz : the Smithsonian anthology.

American Negro poetry /

Table of Contents: “…; The day-breakers ; Golgotha is a mountain ; Idolatry ; Reconnaissance ; Southern mansion ; Nocturne at Bethesda -- Countee Cullen : Heritage (for Harold Jackman) ; That bright chimeric beast ; Yet do I marvel ; Four epitaphs ; Simon the Cyrenian speaks -- Donald Jeffrey Hayes : Appoggiatura ; Benediction ; Haven ; Poet ; Threnody ; Alien ; Pastourelle -- Jonathan Brooks : The resurrection -- Frank Marshall Davis : Flowers of darkness ; Four glimpses of night -- Waring Cuney : No images ; Threnody ; Finis -- Helene Johnson : Poem ; The road ; Sonnet to a negro in Harlem ; Invocation -- Richard Wright : Between the world and me ; Hokku poems -- Charles Enoch Wheeler : Adjuration -- Pauli Murray : Without name ; Dark testament -- Robert Hayden : A ballad of remembrance ; Witch doctor ; Middle passage ; Frederick Douglass ; Veracruz -- Dudley Randall : Perspectives ; I loved you once (from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin) -- Owen Dodson : Sorrow is the only faithful one ; Drunken lover ; Sickle pears (for Glidden Parker) ; Hymn written after Jeremiah preached to me in a dream ; Yardbird's skull (for Charlie Parker) ; Sailors on leave -- Leslie M. Collins : Stevedore -- Margaret Walker : For my people ; Molly means ; October journey -- Frank Yerby : The fishes and the poet's hands ; Weltschmerz ; Wisdom ; You are a part of me ; Calm after storm -- Samuel Allen : A moment please ; To satch -- Catherine Cater : Here and now -- Gwendolyn Brooks : Flags ; The old-marrieds ; Piano after war ; The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock, Fall, 1957 -- Bruce McM. …”

Kerouac on Record : a Literary Soundtrack /

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Storyville presents the A-Z jazz encyclopedia.

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