Bibliography: Jazz (Music)

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Armstrong, Louis. Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings / Brothers, Thomas David. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.  

———. Satchmo. Da Capo Press, 1986.  

Barker, Danny, and Alyn Shipton. Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville. Cassell, 1998.  

Berrett, Joshua. The Louis Armstrong Companion: Eight Decades of Commentary. New York: Schirmer Books, 1999.  

Bethell, Tom. George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.  

Beurkle, Jack V. & Danny Barker. Bourbon Street Black: The New Orleans Black Jazzman. Oxford University Press, 1974.  

Bigard, Barney. With Louis and the Duke: The Autobiography of a Jazz Clarinetist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.  

Bissonnette, Big Bill. The Jazz Crusade: The Inside Story of the Great New Orleans Jazz Revival of the 1960’s. 1st ed. Bridgeport, Conn: Special Request Books & Recordings Division, Special Request Music Service, 1992.  

Brothers, Thomas. Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans. W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.  

Carney, Court. Cuttin’ up: How Early Jazz Got America’s Ear. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.  

Charters, Samuel Barclay. New Orleans: Playing a Jazz Chorus. New York: Marion Boyars Publishers, 2006.

———. Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz, A. American made music series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008.  

Charters, Samuel Barclay. [from old catalog. Jazz: New Orleans, 1885-1963; an Index to the Negro Musicians of New Orleans. Rev. ed. New York: Oak Publications, 1963.  

Collins, R. New Orleans Jazz: A Revised History: The Development of American Music from the Origin to the Big Bands. 1st ed. New York: Vantage Press, 1996.  

Dicaire, David. Jazz Musicians of the Early Years, to 1945. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2003.  

EDAW Inc, Surber, Barber, Choate & Hertlein Architects, and United States. Jazz Complex Buildings: New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, New Orleans, Louisiana. Historic structures and conditions assessment report. Atlanta, Ga: National Park Service, Southeast Regional Office, Architecture Division, 2002.  

Foster, Pops. Pops Foster; the Autobiography of a New Orleans Jazzman as Told to Tom Stoddard. Stoddard, Tom. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971.  

Friedlander, Lee. Jazz People of New Orleans, The. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.  

Gabbard, Krin. Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture. 1st ed. New York: Faber and Faber, 2008.  

Gara, Larry, and Warren Baby Dodds. Baby Dodds Story: As Told to Larry Gara, The. Revised. Rebeats Publications, 2003.  

Hersch, Charles B. Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans. University Of Chicago Press, 2009.  

Kennedy, Al. Chord Changes on the Chalkboard: How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans. Studies in jazz; no. 41. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002.  

King Oliver in New York. n.p.: RCA Victor LPV 529. [1966], n.d.  

Koenig, Karl. Jazz Map of New Orleans. Covington, LA (1627 S. Van Buren, Covington 70433): Basin Street Press, 1991.  

Lomax, Alan. Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and “inventor of Jazz”. 1st ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.  

Longstreet, Stephen. Sportin’ House; a History of the New Orleans Sinners and the Birth of Jazz. 1st ed. Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965.  

Marquis, Donald M. In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.  

Martyn, Barry, and Mick Burns. Walking with legends : Barry Martyn’s New Orleans jazz odyssey. An LSU Press paperback original. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.  

Morgan, Thomas L. Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz. Nashville, Tenn: Turner Publishing, 2009.  

New Orleans Jazz Club. The Second Line. New Orleans: New Orleans Jazz Club, n.d.  

Raeburn, Bruce Boyd. New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.  

Ramsey, Frederic. Jazzmen. Limelight Editions, 1985.  

Rose, Al. New Orleans Jazz; a Family Album. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967.  

———. New Orleans Jazz: A Family Album. 3rd ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.  

Roth, Russell. “On the Instrumental Origins of Jazz.” American Quarterly 4, no. 4 (Winter 1952): 305-316.

Sancton, Tommy. Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White. New York: Other Press, 2006.  

Shipton, Alyn. New History of Jazz, A. Rev. and updated ed. New York: Continuum, 2007.  

Stokes, W. Royal. The Jazz Scene: An Informal History from New Orleans to 1990. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.  

Stricklin, David. Louis Armstrong: The Soundtrack of the American Experience. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010.  

Suhor, Charles. Jazz in New Orleans: The Postwar Years Through 1970. Studies in jazz no. 38. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2001.  

Teachout, Terry. Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.  

Tulane University, and Microfilming Corporation of America. New Orleans Jazz Oral History Collection of Tulane University (1-45). Glen Rock, N.J: Microfilming Corp. of America, 1978.  

Turner, Frederick W. Remembering Song: Encounters with the New Orleans Jazz Tradition. New York: Viking, 1982.  

Wagnleitner, Reinhold, ed. Satchmo Meets Amadeus. Vol. 2. Transatlantica. Studienverlag, 2007.  

Sound Recordings

Charters, Samuel Barclay. New Orleans Jazz: The Twenties. n.p.: Folkways Records RF 203. [1964], n.d.

Jelly Roll Morton: The Library of Congress Recordings. n.p.: Riverside RLP 9001-9012. [1957], n.d.

Morton, Jelly Roll. The King of New Orleans jazz. n.p.]: RCA Victor LPM 1649. [1959], n.d.

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