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Romiley Jazz Archive — 1st June 1996

 

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/ BIOGRAPHY

ARMSTRONG, Louis.
Satchmo: my life in New Orleans. Louis Armstrong [1954] ACE Books, 1957.
Louis Armstrong. Hugues Panassie, Da Capo pbk, 1971.
Louis: The Armstrong Story 1900-1971. Max Jones & John Chilton [1971] Mayflower 1975.
Louis Armstrong: A Biography. James Lincoln Collier, Michael Joseph, 1984.

BARKER, Danny.
A Life in Jazz. Alyn Shipton (Ed). Macmillan, 1986.

BASIE, Count.
Good Morning Blues. Autobiography, as told to Albert Murray [1986] Heineman/Paladin pbk 1987.

BECHET, Sidney.
Treat It Gentle. Sidney Bechet [1960] Cassell/Jazz Book Club 1962.
Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz. John Chilton. Macmillan,1987.

BEIDERBECKE, Bix.
Bix: Man & Legend. Richard M. Sudhalter & Philip R. Evans. Quartet, 1974.

CLAYTON, Buck.
Buck Clayton's Jazz World. With Nancy Miller Elliott. [1986] Bayou Press Ltd, 1989.

COLEMAN, Bill.
Trumpet Story. Macmillan Press, 1990.

COLTRANE, John.
John Coltrane: The Jazz Masters Series. Brian Priestley. Apollo pbk, 1987.

CROW, Bill.
From Birdland to Broadway: scenes from a jazz life. Oxford UP, 1992.

DAVIS, Miles.
Miles Davis: Kings of Jazz 9. Michael James. Cassell, 1961.
Miles Davis: a critical biography. Ian Carr. Quartet, 1982.
Miles: the autobiography. With Quincy Troupe. Macmillan, 1989.
Miles Davis: for beginners. Daryl Long. Writers & Readers, 1992.

DODDS, Baby.
The Baby Dodds Story. As told to Larry Gara. Contemporary Press, 1959.

DODDS, Johnny.
Johnny Dodds: Kings of Jazz 10. G.E. Lambert. Cassell, 1961.

DOLPHY, Eric.
The Importance of Being Eric Dolphy. Raymond Horricks. D.J.Costello, 1989.

ELLINGTON, Duke.
Duke: a portrait of Duke Ellington. Derek Jewell. Elm Tree Books, 1977.
Duke Ellington The Jazz Masters Series. Peter Gammond. Apollo pbk, 1987.
Duke Ellington: the life & times of the restless genius of jazz. [1987] James Lincol Collier. Pan, 1989.

GILLESPIE, Dizzy.
Dizzy Gillespie: Kings of Jazz 2. Michael James. Cassell, 1959.
Dizzy: the autobiography of Dizzy Gillespie. W.H. Allen, 1980.
Dizzy Gillespie: his Life & Times. Spellmount, 1988.
Dizzy: John Birks Gillespie in his 75th Year. Lee Tanner/Gene Lees. Pomegranate Artbooks, 1992.

HANDY, W.C.
Father of the Blues. W.C. Handy. Sidgwick & Jackson/ JBC 1961.

HAWES, Hampton.
Raise up off me: a portrait of Hampton Hawes. With Don Asher. [1974] Da Capo pbk, 1979.

HAMPTON, Lionel.
Hamp: an autobiography. With James Haskins. Robson, 1990.

HAWKINS, Coleman.
Coleman Hawkins: Kings of Jazz 12. Albert J. McCarthy. Cassell, 1963.
The Song of the Hawk: the life & recordings of Coleman Hawkins. John Chilton. Quartet, 1990.

HENDERSON, Fletcher.
Hendersonia: the music of Fletcher Henderson & his musicians. Bio-discography by Walter C. Allen, 1973.

HINES, Earl.
The World of Earl Hines. Stanley Dance [1977] Da Capo pbk, 1977.

HODES, Art.
Hot Man: The Life of Art Hodes. With Chadwick Hansen. Bayou Press, 1992.

HOLIDAY, Billie.
Lady Sings the Blues. With William Dufty. Barrie Books, 1958.
Billie's Blues: the true story of the Immortal Billie Holiday. John Chilton [1975] Quartet, 1977.
Billie Holiday. Stuart Nicholson. Victor Gollancz, 1995.

JOPLIN, Scott.
Scott Joplin & the Ragtime Era. Peter Gammond. Abacus, 1975.
King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin & His Era. Edward A. Berlin. Oxford, 1994.

KAMINSKY, Max.
My Life in Jazz. Max Kaminsky. [1963] Andre Deutsch/JBC 1965.

LEWIS, George.
Call Him George. George Lewis with Jay Allison Stuart [1961] Peter Davies/JBC, 1963.

MANONE, Wingy.
Trumpet on the Wing. Wingy Manone with Paul Vandervoort [1948] Doubleday/JBC, 1964.

MEZZROW, Mezz.
Really the Blues. Mezz Mezzrow with Bernard Wolfe. [1948] Secker & Warburg/JBC, 1959.

MINGUS, Charles.
Beneath the Underdog. Charles Mingus [1971] Weidenfeld & Nicholson/Penguin 1975.

MORTON, Jelly Roll.
Mister Jelly Roll: the fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton. Alan Lomax [1950] Cassell/JBC, 1956.
Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night at the Jungle Inn. Samuel Charters. Marion Boyars, 1984.

MULLIGAN, Gerry
Gerry Mulligan: The Jazz Masters Series. Raymond Horricks. Apollo Pbk, 1986.

OLIVER, King Joe.
King Joe Oliver. Walter C. Allen & Brian Rust. [1955] JBC 1957.

PARKER, Charlie.
Charlie Parker: Kings of Jazz 6. Max Harrison, Cassell, 1960.
BIRD: the legend of Charlie Parker. Robert G. Reisner. McGibbon & Kee, 1962.
Bird Lives! The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker. Ross Russell. Quartet, 1973.
Celebrating Bird: The triumph of Charlie Parker. Gary Giddins. Hodder & Stoughton, 1987.
Bird's Diary: The Life of Charlie Parker 1945-1955. Written by Ken Vail. Castle Communications, 1996.

PETERSON, Oscar.
Oscar Peterson: the will to swing. Gene Lees. Macmillan, 1989.

PORTER, Roy.
There and Back. Roy Porter; edited by David Keller. Bayou Press, 1991.

PRICE, Sammy.
What Do They Want? A Jazz Autobiography. Sammy Price; edited Caroline Richmond. Bayou Press, 1989.

REINHARDT, Django.
Django Reinhardt. Charles Delaunay [1961] Cassell/JBC, 1963.

RUSSELL, Pee Wee.
Pee Wee Russell: The Life of a Jazzman. Robert Hilbert. Oxford, 1993.

SMITH, Bessie.
Bessie Smith: Kings of Jazz 3. Paul Oliver. Cassell, 1959.
Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues. Chris Albertson [1972] Barrie & Jenkins/Abacus pbk 1975.
The Bessie Smith Companion. Edward Brooks; foreword George Melly. Bayou Press, 1989.

SMITH, Willy the Lion.
Music on my Mind: the memoirs of an American Pianist. With George Hoefer [1964] McGibbon & Kee/JBC, 1966.

WALLER, Fats.
Ain't Misbehavin': The Story of Fats Waller. Ed Kirkeby [1966] Peter Davies/JBC, 1967.
Fats Waller: His Life & Times. Joel Vance. Robson, 1979.

WILLIAMS, Clarence.
Clarence Williams. Tom Lord. Storyville, 1976.


HISTORY, CRITICISM, REFERENCE

ANTHEIL, George.
Bad Boy of Music. Autobiography [1947]. Hutchinson/NBA, 1949.

ATKINS, Ronald. (General Editor)
Jazz from New Orleans to the New Jazz Age: The Ultimate Guide. Carlton, 1996.

BAILEY, Derek.
Improvisation: its nature and practice in music. The British Library National Sound Archive, 1992.

BALLIETT, Whitney.
The Sound of Surprise: 46 pieces on Jazz. [1962]. Kimber/JBC, 1961.
Dinosaurs in the Morning: 41 pieces on Jazz. [1962]. Phoenix/JBC, 1965.
New York Notes: A Journal of Jazz in the 70s. [1976]. Da Capo Pbk, 1977.
American Musicians: 56 Portraits in Jazz. Oxford UP, 1986.
Barney, Bradley, and Max: 16 Portraits in Jazz. Oxford UP, 1989.
King Louis. New Yorker, 8 Jan 1994.

BERENDT, Joachim.
The New Jazz Book: a history and Guide. [1953]. Peter Owen/JBC, 1965.
The Jazz Book: from New Orleans to Jazz & Beyond. [Revised, updated edition of 1953 book. Granada, 1983.

BLESH, Rudi & JANIS, Harriet.
They All Played Ragtime: the true story of American Music. [1950]. Sidgwick & Jackson/JBC, 1963.

BLESH, Rudi.
Combo: USA - Eight Lives in Jazz. Chilton, 1971.

BROOKS, Edward.
The Bessie Smith Companion: a critical & detailed appreciation of the
Recordings. [1982] Bayou Press, 1989.

BRUNN, H.O.
The Story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Sidgwick & Jackson/JBC, 1963.

CARR, Ian.
JAZZ: the essential Companion. With Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestley. 1,600 A-Z entries. Grafton, 1987.

CASE, Brian & BRITT, Stan.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz. Salamander, 1978.

CERULLI, Dom & KORALL, Burt (Eds).
The Jazz Word. [1960]. Ballantine/JBC, 1963.

CHARTERS, Samuel B. & KUNSTADT, Leonard.
Jazz: a history of the New York scene. [1962]. Da Capo Pbk, 1981.

CHILTON, John.
Who's Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street. Bloomsbury, 1970.
Who's Who of Jazz. Revised, updated, 5th edition. Papermac, 1990.

CLARKE, Donald (Ed).
Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Viking, 1989.

CONDON, Eddie & GEHMAN, Richard, (Eds).
Eddie Condon's Treasury of Jazz. Peter Davies, 1957.

CROW, Bill.
Jazz Anecdotes. Oxford UP, 1990.

DAHL, Linda.
Stormy Weather: The Music & Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen: [1984]. Limelight, 1989.

DANCE, Stanley.
Jazz Era: The Forties. Editor. [1961]. MacGibbon & Kee/JBC, 1962.
The World of Swing. [1974]. Scribners/Da Capo Pbk, 1979.

DANKWORTH, Avril.
Jazz: an introduction to its musical basis. Oxford UP, 1968.

DYER, Geoff.
But Beautiful. Cape, 1991.

FEATHER, Leonard.
The Book of Jazz: A Guide to the Entire Field. [1957]. Arthur Barker/JBC, 1961.
The NEW edition of the Encyclopedia of Jazz. [1960]. Bonanza/JBC, 1963.
From Satchmo to Miles. [1972]. Stein & Day/Quartet Pbk, 1974.
The Passion for Jazz. [1980]. Introduction for this edition. Da Capo Pbk, 1990.
The Jazz Years: Earwitness to an Era. [1986]. Quartet/Picador Pbk, 1988.

FINKELSTEIN, Sidney.
Jazz: A People's Music. [1948]. Citadel/JBC, 1984.

FORDHAM, John.
Shooting from the Hip: Changing tunes in Jazz. Kyle Cathie, 1996.

FOX, Charles.
Jazz in Perspective. BBC, 1969.

GAMMOND, Peter & CLAYTON, Peter.
Fourteen Miles on a Clear Night. [1966]. Peter Owen/JBC, 1967.

GIOIA, Ted.
West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California 1945-1960. Oxford UP, 1992.

GITLER, Ira.
Jazz Masters of the 40s. Macmillan, 1966.
Swing to Bop: an oral history of the transition in jazz in the 40s. [1985]. Oxford UP Pbk, 1987.

GLEASON, Ralph.
Jam Session: an anthology of jazz. [1958]. Peter Davies/JBC, 1961.

GOLDBERG, J.
Jazz Masters of the 50s. Macmillan, 1965.

GOODMAN, Benny & BARON, Stanley.
Benny: King of Swing. Thames & Hudson, 1979.

GODBOLT, Jim.
World of Jazz in printed ephemera & collectibles. Studio, 1990.

GOTTLIEB, William J.
The Golden Age of Jazz: 200 portraits of musicians of 30s & 40s. Quartet, 1979.

GREEN, Benny.
The Reluctant Art: the growth of Jazz. [1962]. MacGibbon & Kee/JBC, 1964.

HADLOCK, Richard.
Jazz Masters of the 20s. Macmillan, 1965.

HARRISON, Max.
A Jazz Retrospect. David & Charles,1976.

HENTOFF, Nat.
The Jazz Life. Peter Davies, 1962.
Jazz is... W.H.Allen, 1978.

HENTOFF, Nat & McCARTHY, Albert (Eds).
Jazz: new perspectives on the history of jazz. [1959]. Cassell/JBC, 1962.

HODEIR, Andre.
Jazz: its evolution and essence. [1954]. Secker & Warburg, 1956.
Toward Jazz. [1962]. Grove/JBC, 1965.

HORRICKS, Raymond. (Ed).
These Jazzmen of Our Time. Gollancz, 1959.

JAMES, Burnett.
Essays on Jazz. Sidgwick & Jackson/JBC, 1962.

JAMES, Michael.
Ten Modern Jazzmen. Cassell, 1960.

KEEPNEWS, Orrin.
The View from Within: Jazz Writings 1948-1987. [1987]. Oxford UP, 1990.

KEEPNEWS, Orrin & GRAUER, Bill.
A Pictorial History of Jazz: People & Places from New Orleans to Modern Jazz. [1955]. Spring Books, Late 50s.

KELLNER, Bruce (Ed).
The Harlem Renaissance: a historical dictionary for the era. Methuen, 1987.

KENNEY, William Howland.
Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History 1904 - 1930. [1993], OUP Pbk 1994.

KERNFELD, Barry (Ed).
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz: Vol.1 A-K, Vol.2 L-Z. Macmillan, 1988.

KINGTON, Miles.
The Jazz Anthology. HarperCollins, 1992.

KLAASS, Piet.
Jam Session: 120 Portraits of Jazz & Blues Musicians. David & Charles, 1985.

LAMBERT, Constant.
Music Ho! A Study of Music in Decline. [1934]. Faber (4th imp), 1943.

LARKIN, Philip.
All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961-1971. [1970]. Revised edition, Faber & Faber, 1985.

LEBRECHT, Norman.
The Companion to 20th Century Music. Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1992.

LEES, Gene.
Meet Me At Jim & Andy's: jazz musicians and their world. Oxford UP, 1988.

LEONARD, Neil.
Jazz and the White Americans. [1962]. Univ.of Chicago/JBC, 1964.

LESLIE, Peter.
[British] Big Bands of the Thirties. NEL, 1971.

LYONS, Len.
The Great Jazz Pianists: speaking of their lives and music. [1983]. Da Capo Pbk, 1989.

McCARTHY, Albert (Ed).
Jazzbook 1955. Cassell, 1955.

MELLERS, Wilfred.
Music in a New Found Land. [1965]. Revised pbk. Faber, 1987.

NEWTON, Francis.
The Jazz Scene. [1959] MacGibbon & Kee/JBC, 1960.

NICHOLSON, Stuart.
Jazz: the Modern Resurgence. Simon & Schuster, 1990.

OGREN, Kathy J.
The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America and the meaning of Jazz: [1989]. Oxford UP, 1992.

OLIVER, Paul & HARRISON/BOSCOM (Eds).
The New Grove Gospel, Blues & Jazz. Papermac, 1986.

PANASSIE, Hugues.
The Real Jazz. [1942, rev. 1960]. Barnes/JBC, 1967.
Dictionary of Jazz. [1954]. JBC, 1959.

PARKER, Chris (Ed).
B Flat, Bebop, Scat: jazz stories and poems. Quartet, 1986.

PLEASANTS, Henry.
Death of a Music? The decline of the European tradition & the rise of Jazz. [1961]. Gollancz/JBC, 1962.

POLING, J.
Esquire's World of Jazz. Arthur Barker, 1962.

PEARSON, Nathan W.
Goin' to Kansas City. Macmillan, 1988.

RAMSEY, Frederic & SMITH, Charles Edward.
Jazzmen: the story of hot jazz told in the lives of the men who created it. [1939] Sidgwick & Jackson/JBC, 1958.

RIVELLI, Pauline & LEVIN, Robert. (Eds).
Giants of Black Music. [1970]. Pbk reprint with Introduction by Nat Hentoff. Da Capo, 1979.

ROSS, Russell.
Jazz Style in Kansas City & the South West. Univ. of California, 1971.

SARGEANT, Winthrop.
Jazz: Hot & Hybrid. [1938]. JBC, 1959.

SCHULLER, Gunther.
Early Jazz: its roots and development. Oxford UP, 1968.
The Swing Era: the development of jazz 1930-1945. Oxford UP, 1989.

SHAPIRO, Nat & HENTOFF, Nat (Eds).
Hear me talkin' to ya: the story of jazz by the men who made it. Peter Davies, 1955.

SILVESTER, Peter.
A Left Hand Like God: the Story of Boogie-Woogie. [1988]. Pbk edition. Omnibus Press, 1990.

SPELLMAN, A.B.
Four Lives in the Bebop Business. MacGibbon & Kee, 1967.

STEARNS, Marshall.
The Story of Jazz. [1956]. Reissued as pbk with expanded bibliography & syllabus. Oxford UP, 1970.

STEWART, Rex.
Jazz Masters of the 30s. Macmillan, 1972.

STOCK, Dennis.
Jazz Street: photographs by Dennis Stock. Andre Deutsch, 1960.

STOKES, W. Royal.
The Jazz Scene: an informal history from New Orleans to 1990. Oxford UP, 1991.

SYMES, Peter.
Focus on Jazz. Photography by Peter Symes; text Peter Gamble. Robert Hale, 1988.

TOLEDANO, Ralph de.
Frontiers of Jazz. [1947, rev.1962]. Fredk. Ungar/JBC, 1966.

TOWNLEY, Eric.
Tell Your Story. Locates, identifies and explains 2,700 jazz & blues titles recorded between 1917 and 1950. Storyville, 1976.

TRAILL, Sinclair & LASCELLES, Gerald (Eds).
Just Jazz - 4. Souvenir, 1960.

TRAILL, Sinclair (Ed).
Concerning Jazz. [1957]. Faber/JBC, 1958.

TUCKER, Mark (Ed).
The Duke Ellington Reader. Oxford UP, 1993.

ULANOV, Barry.
A Handbook of Jazz. Hutchinson, 1958.
A History of Jazz in America. [1950]. Hutchinson/JBC, 1959.

WHITE, Mark.
The Observer's Book of Jazz. Warne, 1978.

WHEATON, Jack.
All That Jazz! Ardsley House, 1994.

WILLIAMS, Martin.
The Art of Jazz. [1959]. Cassell-OUP/JBC, 1962.
Jazz Panorama: from the pages of Jazz Review. [1962]. Cromwell-Collier/JBC, 1965.
Jazz Masters of New Orleans. Macmillan, 1967.
Jazz Masters in Transition 1957-1969. Macmillan, 1970.
The Jazz Tradition. Oxford UP, 1970.
The Jazz Tradition: Second Revised Edition. Oxford UP, 1993
Jazz in its Time. Oxford UP, 1989; pbk 1991.
Jazz Changes. Oxford UP, 1992; pbk 1993.

WILLIAMS, Peter.
The Concise Guide to the Arts. [Originally published as the 'Bluffer's Guide', and includes 'Folk & Jazz' pp.191-250]. Wolfe/BCA, 1973.

WILLIAMS, Richard.
JAZZ: A Photographic Documentary. Studio Editions Ltd, 1994.

WILLIAMSON, Ken (Ed).
This is Jazz. Newnes/JBC, 1961.

WILMER, Valerie.
As Serious As Your Life: the story of the New Jazz. Quartet, 1977.


BLUES

ALBERTSON, Chris.
Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues. [1972] Barrie & Jenkins/Abacus Pbk, 1975.

BROOKS, Edward.
The Bessie Smith Companion. [1982] Bayou Press, 1989.

CHARTERS, Samuel B.
The Country Blues. [1959]. Michael Joseph/JBC, 1961.

COURLANDER, Harold.
Negro Folk Music USA. [1963]. Columbia UP/JBC, 1966.

DIXON, R.M.W. & GODRICH, J.
Recording the Blues. Studio Vista, 1970.

JONES, Le Roi.
Blues People: Negro Music in White America. [1963]. MacGibbon & Kee/JBC, 1966.

LOMAX, Alan.
The Land where the Blues Began. [1993]. Minerva pbk, 1995.

OLIVER, Paul.
Bessie Smith. Kings of Jazz 3. Cassell, 1959.
Blues fell this morning: the meaning of the Blues. [1960]. Cassell/JBC, 1963.
Conversation with the Blues. [1965]. Cassell/JBC, 1967.
Screening the Blues: Aspects of the Blues Tradition. Cassell, 1968.
The Story of the Blues. Cresset Press, 1969.
Savannah Syncopators: African Retentions in the Blues. Studio Vista, 1970.
The Blackwell Guide to Blues Records. Blackwell, 1989.

OLIVER, Paul, HARRISON, Max & BOLCOM, William.
The New Grove Gospel, Blues & Jazz. Papermac, 1986.

SANTELLI, Robert.
The Big Book of Blues: a biographical encyclopedia. Pavilion Books, 1994.

STEWART-BAXTER, Derrick.
Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers. Studio Vista.


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