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This is a unique reference book on jazz. It brings together 60 essays that cover every aspect of jazz history: pre-history, New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, more recent jazz. There are also essays on individual jazz figures from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane, on jazz instruments and singers, jazz outside the United States, and a range of subjects such as jazz criticism, jazz in literature and film and TV, and jazz dance. Each entry was commissioned for this book.

This is a unique jazz reference book that covers jazz with much more range and depth than other jazz histories or reference books. Most of the major critics in jazz today have written articles for the book. The 60 entries cover jazz in all its aspects. Entries include all the historical periods of jazz - from its African and European roots, its progenitors in blues and ragtime, and its major periods and styles: New Orleans, The Swing Era, Bebop, and Modern Jazz. There are separate pieces on the major figures - from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane - and on singers, pianists, and big bands and jazz composition in each period. Each jazz instrument, from saxophone to drums, has its own history. Separate entries cover jazz around the world: Latin Jazz, Europe, Britain and the Commonwealth, Brazil, Japan, and Africa. The book ranges over such topics as jazz dance, criticism, education, and jazz in literature and films and television. This is both a reading book and a reference book. Each entry is comprehensive in itself - ranging in length from 3,500 to 5,000 words - but it also fits its subject into the larger picture of jazz. Many of these essays represent definitive statements on their subjects. Each entry in the collection was commissioned specifically for the book.

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African roots of jazz / Samuel A. Floyd Jr. -- European roots of jazz / William H. Youngren -- Ragtime then and now / Max Morath -- The early origins of jazz /Jeff Taylor -- New York roots : Black Broadway, James Reese Europe, early pianists / Thomas L. Riis -- The blues in jazz / Bob Porter -- Bessie Smith / Chris Albertson -- King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet : menage a trois, New Orleans style / Bruce Boyd Raeburn -- Louis Armstrong / Dan Morgenstern -- Bix Beiderbecke / Digby Fairweather -- Duke Ellington / Mark Tucker -- Hot music in the 1920s : the "Jazz Age," appearances and realities / Richard M. Sudhalter -- Pianists of the 1920s and 1930s / Henry Martin -- Coleman Hawkins / Kenny Berger -- Lester Young / Loren Schoenberg -- Streamlining jazz : Major soloists of the 1930s and 1940s / John McDonough -- Jazz singing : between blues and bebop / Joel E. Siegel -- Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Billie Holiday / Patricia Willard -- Jazz and the American song / Gene Lees -- Pre-swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging / James T. 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 --
(cont.) Charlie Parker / James Patrick -- Cool jazz and west coast jazz / Ted Gioia -- Jazz and classical music : to the third stream and beyond / Terry Teachout -- Pianists of the 1940s and 1950s / Dick Katz -- Hard bop / Gene Seymour -- Miles Davis / Bob Belden -- Big bands and jazz composing and arranging after World War II / Doug Ramsey -- Theolonious Monk and Charles Mingus / Brian Priestley -- John Coltrane / Lewis Porter -- The avant-garde, 1949-1967 / Lawrence Kart -- Pianists of the 1960s and 1970s / Bob Blumenthal -- Jazz singing since the 1940s / Will Friedwald -- Jazz since 1968 / Peter Keepnews -- Fusion / Bill Milkowski -- Jazz repertory / Jeffrey Sultanof -- Latin jazz / Gene Santoro -- Jazz in Europe : the real world music-- or the full circle / Mike Zwerin -- Jazz and Brazilian music / Stephanie L. Stein Crease -- Jazz in Africa : the ins and outs / Howard Mandel -- Jazz in Japan / Kiyoshi Koyama -- Jazz in Canada and Australia / Terry Martin -- The clarinet in jazz / Michael Ullman -- The saxophone in jazz / Don Heckman -- The trumpet in jazz / Randy Sandke -- The trombone in jazz / Gunther Schuller -- The electric guitar and vibraphone in jazz : batteries not included / Neil Tesser -- Miscellaneous instruments in jazz / Christopher Washburne --
(cont.) The bass in jazz / Bill Crow -- Jazz drumming / Burt Korall -- Jazz and dance / Robert P. Crease -- Jazz and film and television / Chuck Berg -- Jazz clubs / Vincent Pelote -- Jazz and American literature / Gerald Early -- Jazz criticism / Ron Welburn -- Jazz education / Charles Beale -- Recorded jazz / Dan Morgenstern -- Jazz improvisation and concepts of virtuosity / David Demsey.