Research Guides: Jazz Performance: Program Note Resources

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Resources for Writing Program Notes

You can find biographies of individual jazz musicians by browsing in the ML410-ML420 call numbers in the Music Collection.

ML410: Biographies of jazz musicians best known as composers or songwriters
ML419: Biographies of jazz musicians best known as instrumental performers
ML420: Biographies of jazz musicians best known as vocal performers

Examples of each are below-- there are many more on the shelves!

The Duke Ellington Reader by Mark Tucker (Editor)
Call Number: ML410.E44 D84 1993
Publication Date: 1993
Cole Porter Companion by Don M. Randel (Editor); Matthew Shaftel (Editor); Susan Forscher Weiss (Editor)
Call Number: ML410.P7844 R3 2016
Publication Date: 2016
It's About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record by Richard Cook
Call Number: ML419.D39 C66 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Billie Holiday by Stuart Nicholson
Call Number: ML420.H58 N53 1995
Publication Date: 1995

You can browse books in the MT145-MT146 section, arranged alphabetically by the composer, for analyses of their music. For example:

Analyzing Jazz by Steve Larson
Call Number: MT146 .L37 2009
Publication Date: 2009

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