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Jazz: An American Art Form

Posted on October 16th, 2019

At Booth Library this month, we’re celebrating Jazz. The style of jazz most focused on in the list below is of the bebop, post-bop, and modal jazz genres emblematic of the mid-twentieth century decades of the 1940s-1960s. Timeless artists like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, “Cannonball” Adderley, and more populate the discs and literature in this display. Bebop, post-bop and modal subgenres consist of wailing fast, exciting, flowing bebop tunes like “Night in Tunisia” as well as slow, unique, personal modal charts like “So What.” The books tell the stories of these musicians and their personal struggles, but also the highs from innovating and playing jazz.

You can find playlists of the essential jazz playlist here as well as the top jazz artists here.

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The selected titles discs and LPs are on display on the third floor corridor and all are available for checkout:

You may also peruse our large collection of films about Jazz both on DVD and streaming.

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  • Connick, Harry, Jr., 1967-
  • M1630.18.C66x T8 .CD
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  • Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man
  • Jobim, Helena.
  • ML410.J62 J6313 2011
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  • Bebop: The Music and Its Players
  • Owens, Thomas, 1938-
  • ML3506 .O95 1996
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  • Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane
  • Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
  • 788.7 W3784b
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  • Charlie Parker: Complete Jazz at Massey Hall.
  • Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955.
  • M1366.P37x C52 .CD
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  • Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
  • Raschka, Christopher.
  • 788.7 P2238ra
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  • Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve.
  • Fitzgerald, Ella.
  • M1630.18.F579x C65 .CD
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  • Ella and Louis.
  • Fitzgerald, Ella.
  • M1630.18.F579x E44 .LP
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  • Frank Sinatra Hits.
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998.
  • M1630.18.S562x F73 .CD
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  • Giant Steps
  • Coltrane, John, 1926-1967.
  • M1366.C64x G52 .CD
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  • Groovin’ High: The Life Of Dizzy Gillespie
  • Shipton, Alyn.
  • ML419.G54 S55 1999
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  • Jazz: A History Of America’s Music
  • Ward, Geoffrey C.
  • ML3506 .W37 2000
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  • Jazz in Black & White: The Photographs Of Duncan Schiedt
  • Schiedt, Duncan P.
  • ML87 .S35 2004
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  • Jazz, a Listener’s Guide
  • McCalla, James, 1946-
  • ML3508 .M35 2000
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  • John Coltrane
  • Cole, Bill, 1937-
  • ML419.C645 C6 2001x
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  • Lady Sings the Blues
  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.
  • ML420.H58 A3 1984
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  • A Love Supreme
  • Coltrane, John, 1926-1967.
  • M1366.C64x L68 1980 .LP
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  • Maiden Voyage
  • Hancock, Herbie, 1940-
  • M1.H1905.3 .LP
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  • Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention Of Post Bop
  • Yudkin, Jeremy.
  • ML419.D39 Y83 2008
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  • Moanin’
  • Blakey, Art, 1919-1990,
  • M1366.B52x M62 .CD
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  • Pops: A Life Of Louis Armstrong
  • Teachout, Terry.
  • ML419.A75 T43 2009
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  • Waltz for Debby
  • Bill Evans Trio.
  • M1366.E92x W34 .CD
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  • We Get Requests
  • Oscar Peterson Trio.
  • M1366.O82x W4 .CD
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  • What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians As Artists, Critics, and Activists
  • Porter, Eric (Eric C.)
  • ML3508 .P67 2002
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