Research Guides: Jazz Performance: Historic Overviews

Overviews of Jazz History

The following books in the UO Libraries Music Collection provide detailed scholarly coverage of the history and development of jazz. You can find many more by browsing the ML3506-ML3508 call numbers in the Music Collection.

The History of Jazz by Gunther A. Schuller
Call Number: ML3506 .S36 1986 (2 vols)
Publication Date: 1986
Essential Jazz: The First 100 Years (2nd ed.) by Henry Martin; Keith Waters
Call Number: ML3506 .M352 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History by Robert Walser (Editor)
Call Number: ML3507 .K4 2014
Publication Date: 2014
The Chronicle of Jazz by Mervyn Cooke
Call Number: ML3506 .C69 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Drummin' Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz-- The Bebop Years by Burt Korall
Call Number: ML399 .B658 2002
Publication Date: 2002
New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History by Bruce Boyd Raeburn
Call Number: ML3508.8.N48 R34 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop by Frank Driggs; Chuck Haddix
Call Number: ML3508.8.K37 D75 2005
Publication Date: 2005

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