Tough tenor favorites /

Table of Contents: “…(4:54) / King-Parker -- Ow! (4:20) / Dizzy Gillespie -- I wished on the moon (6:39) / Rainger-Parker -- Tin tin deo (5:42) / Chano Pozo -- From this moment on (6:02) / Cole Porter.…”
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The Jam sessions : Montreux '77.

Table of Contents: “…Oscar Peterson jam : Perdido (5:50) -- Oscar Peterson jam : Mack the Knife (7:40) -- Milt Jackson/Ray Brown jam : Red top (11:54) -- Dizzy Gillespie jam : Here 'tis (10:40) -- Count Basie jam : Freeport jump (10:06) -- Pablo all- stars jam : Donna Lee (5:37).…”
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The first album of jazz for children. with documentary recordings from the library of Folkways Records / by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Table of Contents: “…Duke Ellington. Earl Hines. Dizzy Gillespie. Lennie Tristano. Teenagers. Mary Lou Williams.…”

Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet.

Table of Contents: “…If I were a bell / Frank Loesser (8:15) -- You're my everything / Dixon-Young-Warren (5:18) -- If I could write a book / Rodgers-Hart (5:10) -- Oleo / Sonny Rollins (5: 52) -- It could happen to you / Burke-Van Heusen (6:37) -- Woody'n you / Dizzy Gillespie (5:01).…”
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Gemini / by Spann, Les, 1932-1989

Table of Contents: “…Smile / Donald Heywood (6:10) -- Con alma / Dizzy Gillespie (3:33) -- Q's dues blues / Les Spann (6:11) -- It might as well be spring / Rodgers ; Hammerstein (4:41) -- Stockholm sweetnin' / Quincy Jones (5:31) -- Blues for Gemini / Julius Watkins (4:51) -- Afterthought / Spann (5: 04) -- There is no greater love / Symes ; Jones (4:46).…”
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Django /

Table of Contents: “…Django (7:03) -- One bass hit (2:59) / Dizzy Gillespie -- La Ronde suite, a) piano b) bass c) vibes d) drums (9:38) -- The queen's fancy (3:12) --Delaunay's dilemma (4:01) -- Autumn in New York (3:40) / Vernon Duke -- But not for me (3:44) / Gershwin, Gershwin -- Milano (4:23).…”
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Profiles in jazz : from Sidney Bechet to John Coltrane / by Horricks, Raymond, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Sidney Bechet -- Art Hodes -- Budd Johnson -- Charlie Shavers -- Art Tatum and Ben Webster -- Freddie Green -- Arnett Cobb -- George Gershwin -- Mel Powell -- Jimmy Blanton -- Ellington -- 1956: a jazz annus mirabilis -- Gil Evans and Dizzy Gillespie -- Clint Eastwood and Bird!, the movie -- Al Haig -- Miles Davis -- Buddy De Franco -- Sarah Vaughan -- Gerry Mulligan -- Roy Haynes -- Sonny Rollins -- Britt Woodman-- Louie Bellson -- Wynton Kelly -- Clef/Verve: a company report -- Bill Evans -- Phil Woods -- Claude Bolling -- Ornette Coleman -- Eddie Jones -- Gary Burton -- Gordon Beck -- Ray Swinfield -- Johnny O'Neal -- Richard Davis -- John Coltrane.…”

Oscar Peterson : Music in the key of Oscar

Jazz notes : interviews across the generations / by Josephson, Sanford

Table of Contents: “…Seeing Stardust : "Hoagy" Carmichael -- The joint is jumpin' : Thomas "Fats" Waller -- No joke : Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti -- One o'clock jump : William "Count" Basie -- Melody man : Jonah Jones -- God is in the house : Art Tatum -- Road warriors : Earle Warren, Howard McGhee, and Milt Hinton -- The happy singer : Helen Humes -- The religion of bebop : John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie -- Classical jazz : George Shearing -- Take five : Dave Brubeck -- Duke's man : Norris Turney -- Singing the chords : Jon Hendricks -- Traveling with King Louis : Arvell Shaw -- Beyond the big bands : Gerry Mulligan -- Musical chameleon : Dick Hyman -- Flying high : Maynard Ferguson -- Growing up with jazz : Stanley Cowell -- Horn of emotion : David Sanborn -- Jazz ambassador : Billy Taylor.…”

The last balladeer : the Johnny Hartman story / by Akkerman, Gregg

Table 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. …”

At the vanguard of vinyl : a cultural history of the long-playing record in jazz / by Mueller, Darren, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…The LP Goes Live -- Do the Huckle-Buck : Jazz and the Emergent LP, 1949 to 1955 -- Mistakes, Mishaps, and Miscues : The Early LPs of Prestige Records -- Quest for the Moment : The Audio Production of Ellington at Newport -- World Statesman : The Ambassadorial LPs of Dizzy Gillespie -- Capturing the Scene: The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco -- Mingus Ah Um : The Avant-Garde Record Making of Charles Mingus -- Jazz as a Culture of Circulation.…”

Summit meeting at Birdland.

Oscar Peterson jam.

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The rhythm man.

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Blues and boogie.

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Signature songs.

Table of Contents: “…Lullaby of Birdland (George Shearing) (6:20) -- Minnie the Moocher (Cab Calloway) (2:56) -- Take 5 (Dave Brubeck) (9:21) -- Con alma (Dizzy Gillespie) (9:36) -- Poinciana (Ahmad Jamal) (8:12) -- Mumbles (Clark Terry) (4:17) -- Misty (Erroll Garner) (4:57) -- Flyin' home (Lionel Hampton) (6:09) -- New York, New York (Liza Minnelli) (3:53).…”
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Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing but not for me.

Table of Contents: “…Woody n'] you / Dizzie [i.e. Dizzy] Gillespie -- What's new / B. Haggart, J. Burke.…”

Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing : but not for me.

Table of Contents: “…Woody n'] you / Dizzie [i.e. Dizzy] Gillespie -- What's new / B. Haggart, J. Burke.…”
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Math, who needs it?!

Sweet rain / by Getz, Stan, 1927-1991

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