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Professor
Lisa Cleveland
Library Liaison
Claudia Bissett
Contents
Introduction
Reserve Readings List
Research Basics
Reference Sources for
Background Information
Find Books/Secondary Sources
Find Journal Articles
Selected Websites
Style Manual for Music
How to Cite Your Sources
Subject Guide
Music
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The following guide is intended to provide an overview of some of the resources available in the library and online for Jazz Studies. For further research assistance, please take advantage of the reference services available to you in the Geisel Library. Stop by the Reference Desk in person or online at Ask a Librarian.
MU243: Studies in Jazz History
The reference librarians have created a group of web pages named Research Help and a tutorial called Searchpath, designed to help teach you the basics of library research and to introduce you to Geisel Library. Please take advantage of this resource.
Reference books are shelved by Library of Congress call number in the reference stacks near the reference desk. They may not be checked out, but photocopiers are available on the lower level of the Library. Online reference sources can be found in the library catalog, or listed on Research Help.
Bibliographies
Bibliographical Handbook of American Music
Ref ML120 .U5 k78
Literature of American Music
Ref ML120 .U5 H7
Jazz-bibliography
Ref ML128 .J3 H461
New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
Ref ML102 .J3 1994
Dictionaries
New Harvard Dictionary of Music
Ref ML100 .N485 2003
Oxford Dictionary of Music
Ref ML100 .K35
Dictionary of Musical Quotations
Ref Ml66 .C86
Biographical Sources
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Ref ML105 .B16
Who's Who of Jazz
Ref Ml106 .U3 C5
Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties
Ref ML105 .F35
Jazz: The Rough Guide
Ref ML102 .J3 C325
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Ref ML100 .N48
Discographies
All Music Guide to Jazz
Ref ML156.4 .JU3 A45
New Hot Discography: The Standard Directory of Recorded Jazz
Ref ML156.4 J3 D42
Terms and History
New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
Ref ML102.J3 N48 2002
New Grove Dictionary of American Music
Ref ML101.U6 N48 1986
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics Vol. 3 (History of Jazz)
Ref BH56 E53
New Oxford History of Music
Ref ML160 .N44
Jazz Talk (Has the history of jazz slang)
Ref ML102 .J3 G7
History of Jazz
Ref ML3506 .G54
Encyclopedia of Jazz
Ref ML102.J3 F4 1960
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Subject Headings Suggestions for searching the Catalog:
The following Library of Congress subject headings are relevant to Jazz Studies:
- Jazz – history and criticism
- Jazz – Dictionaries
- Jazz – Bio-bibliography
- Jazz – Discography
- Jazz – Encyclopedias
- Jazz – United States – Biography
- Music and literature – History – 20th century
- Art and Music – History – 20th century
- African Americans
- African Americans – Biography
- African Americans – History
- Harlem Renaissance
- African Americans in the professions
- Bop (Music)
- Swing (Music)
- Instrumentation and orchestration (Dance orchestra)
- United States History 1865–1921
- United States History 1919–1933
- United States History 1933–1945
Keyword suggestions for searching the Catalog:
- Jazz
- Jazz roots
- Blues
- Analysis
Names of composers, arrangers and groups:
Style Periods
- Early Jazz
- Bebop, Hard Bop, Cool
- Free Jazz
- Fusion and After
Use the * (asterisk) as a truncation symbol to retrieve variant forms of a word root. Use the Boolean OR to expand your search by including synonyms and related terms. When using two different Boolean commands in the same search statement ("and" and "or" in the preceding examples) you must include parentheses to indicate which command is to be performed first.
Some recommended General Collection books found using Subject and Keyword searches in the catalog:
Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers
ML390 .B235 2003
Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce
ML3506 .A66 2002
Duke Ellington and His World: A Biography
ML410.E44 L39 2001
Concise Guide to Jazz
ML3506 .G736 1998
If you are unable to locate materials in the Geisel Library Catalog, search libraries worldwide using WorldCat.
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MasterFILE Premier
Similar to the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, "this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes 316 full text reference books, 88,000 biographies, 83,500 primary source documents, and an image collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost."
Academic Search Premier
Gain access to full-text as well as indexing and abstracting for a wide range of journal titles covering business, social sciences, humanities, general science, and education.
Alternative Press Index
"Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change." (1991–present)
America: History and Life
Provides abstracts to journal articles, book/media reviews, and dissertations with a focus on United States and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. (1964–present) Journal List (PDF)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Provides indexing to the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selections from social science and science journals. Includes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, and reviews. (1980–present)
JSTOR
Contains the largest selection of Music periodicals of any of Geisel Library's online resources. See JStor III Journal List.
New York Times
"The New York Times (1851–2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue."
LexisNexis Academic
Find full-text newspaper articles from local, national and international papers. Gain access to full-text law reviews as well as company news and financial information, medical information, laws and regulations, polls and surveys, and general reference information.
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JAZZ HISTORIES & DEFINITIONS
Harlem.Org
Web site to accompany the Academy-award winning documentary on jazz; one can browse by timeline, artist, instrument, or style.
Jazz Roots: a History of Early Jazz
Focuses on the first thirty years, and includes biographies, pictures, suggested recordings, etc.
Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project
From the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The Styles of Jazz
A graphical chart of jazz styles derived from Joachim Berendt's The Jazz Book.
What is Jazz?
Four hours of lectures and examples on jazz and jazz history by Dr. Billy Taylor, recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. You can listen to the entire lecture in various audio formats, or select the portions dealing with a particular artist or style.
History of Jazz
Lengthy article by Ted Gioia.
WNUR-FM JazzWeb
Includes a timeline of jazz development and styles, jazz education, retailer information, record labels, jazz instruments, artist information, radio programming, jazz links.
Louis Armstrong discography
This online discography makes available to a worldwide audience the details of each and every track Armstrong recorded.
Jazz Hall of Fame
Big Bands Database: Dixieland Overview
Jazz Primer for Rock People
All-Music Guide
The AMG is a complete online database of recorded popular music. Includes the following music styles: rock, folk, jazz, reggae, blues, Cajun, etc. Has biographies and discographies of artists and rates recordings.
JAZZ MUSICIANS
The websites below are only representative of a plethora of information on the web. Wikipedia features comprehensive articles on jazz artists, and You Tube features live performances of many of them.
Jazz-Institut Darmstadt
Louis Armstrong
Satchmo.net
The official site for the Louis Armstrong House and Archives.
Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project
from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Louis Armstrong Discography
Detailed Louis Armstrong discography covering his whole career.
Count Basie
"One More Once" A Centennial Celebration of the Life and Music of Count Basie
Essays, pictures, interviews, sound clips and bibliography from the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.
John Coltrane
Official John Coltrane website
Chick Corea
Official Chick Corea website
Miles Davis
The Official Miles Davis Web Site
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington: Celebrating 100 Years of the Man and his Music
A collaboration between the National Museum of American History, the Music Educators National Conference and the Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge. Includes lessons and activities, photo scrapbooks timeline and a bibliography.
Ella Fitzgerald
Official Website of Ella Fitzgerald
Includes biography, discography, photos and other information
Dizzie Gillespie
BBC Music Profiles: Dizzie Gillespie
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday: The Official Site of Lady Day
Commercial website with biography and photos.
James P. Johnson
RedHotJazz.Com: James Price Johnson
Discography with sound clips
StridePiano.Com: James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson Foundation Website
Biography, images, links to other sites
Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton Clinics
A site devoted to the band clinics once held by Kenton several summers.
Lee Konitz
BBC Radio 3 Jazz Profiles: Lee Konitz
John Lewis (Modern Jazz Quartet)
JazClas: John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet
Wynton Marsalis
Official Wynton Marsalis website
Charles Mingus
The Real Mingus Web
Charles Mingus Home Page [unofficial]
Including bibliography, discography and filmography.
Thelonious Monk
The Thelonious Monk Website
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Wes Montgomery
NPR Jazz Profiles: Wes Montgomery
Biography plus streaming video program
Jelly Roll Morton
RedHotJazz.Com: Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton
Discography with sound clips
Jazzitude.Com: Jelly Roll Morton
Biography with sound clips
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Original Dixieland Jazz Band : ODJB website
Site for current organization includes historical information
RedHotJazz.Com: Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Discography with sound clips
Charlie Parker
A Tribute to Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker Sessionography
Detailed and annotated.
Wayne Shorter
The Complete Wayne Shorter
Bessie Smith
Blues Online: Bessie Smith
RedHotJazz.Com: Bessie Smith
Lester Young
Lester Young
Josef Zawinul
Zawinul Online
Beyond the home page is a wealth of information, but because of his recent death (9/11/07) much of the introduction consists of memorials.
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Writing About Music by Richard Wingell
ML 3797.W54 2002
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See the library's How To Cite Your Sources guide for resources on how to properly cite research materials. Always confirm the style required by your instructor.
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