Old manuscripts : (broadcast transcriptions, 1944/45) by Basie, Count, 1904-1984

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The war : a Ken Burns film : the soundtrack.

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Jazz. Episode six, Swing, the velocity of celebration

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Goodbyes and other messages : a journal of jazz, 1981-1990 by Balliett, Whitney

Table of Contents: “…1981 -- The new red rover trio ; Down the river (kool jazz festival) ; New bird (Charlie Parker) ; Duke Ellington ; Reunion (modern jazz quartet) -- 1982 -- Monk (Thelonious Monk) ; Sonny Greer ; Dizzy Gillespie and Bill Coleman ; Good tidings (old and new dreams) ; Teddy Wilson ; King again (Frank Sinatra) ; Bunny Berigan ; Otis Ferguson ; Making do (kool jazz festival) -- 1983 -- Old wine, new bottles (Warren Vache) ; Earl Hines and Peck Kelley ; Whiz kid (Wynton Marsalis) ; "The sound of jazz" ; Fauntleroy and the brute (Ben Webster) -- 1984 -- Danger dancing all around (Louis Armstrong) ; Michel Petrucciani and Paul Whiteman ; Like a lilt (Count Basie) ; Morton monologue ; The blue notes ; Vic (Vic Dickenson) -- 1985 -- Classic jazz quartet; David Murray's octet; and Zoot Sims and Al Cohn ; The Mulligan sextet and Paul Gonsalves ; Cootie Williams and Jo Jones ; Romantic agony (Bill Evans) ; Peaked (kool jazz festival) ; Mingus at work -- 1986 -- Basie slips by ; American jazz orchestra and the leaders ; The big bands ; B.G.- and Big Sid ; From Joplin to Goodman, and slightly beyond -- 1987 -- The keynotes ; Traps, the drum wonder (Buddy Rich) ; John Hammond and Dick Wellstood ; Ellington slips by -- 1988 -- Cruising ; Jimmy Knepper, Peggy, and the Duke ; Stephane Grappelli and Warne Marsh -- 1989 -- The swing era ; Max (Max Gordon) ; Mixed blessings (Grove's) ; Mingus regained ; A hostile land (Roy Eldridge) ; Goodbye, Michael (Michael Moore and Gene Bertoncini) ; Miles -- 1990 -- Max and Kit (Max Roach and Kit Fitzgerald) ; Keepers of the flame (Tommy Flanagan and Errol Garner) ; Imagining music (jazz fiction) ; Giants (Sarah Vaughan and Art Tatum) ; The commodores (Milt Gabler).…”


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The war a Ken Burns film : the soundtrack. by Meyer, Edgar

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Four classic albums by Sims, Zoot

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Our love is here to stay : Ella & Louis sing Gershwin. by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

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Music is my mistress by Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

Table of Contents: “…-- I really never miss -- Dramatis felidae : Cat Anderson ; Joya Sherrill ; Kay Davis ; Marie Ellington ; Jimmy Hamilton ; Paul Gonsalves ; Shorty Baker ; Russell Procope ; Betty Roché ; Al Hibbler ; Wini Brown ; Louis Bellson ; Jimmy Woode ; Sammy Woodyard ; Jimmy Grissom ; John Sanders ; Willie Cook ; Clark Terry ; Ernie Shepard ; Joe Turner ; Jimmy Rushing ; Stepin Fetchit [Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry] ; Jimmy Jones ; Louis Armstrong and Joe Glaser ; Ella Fitzgerald and Norman Granz ; Frank Sinatra ; Orson Welles ; Jo Jones ; Joe Williams ; Charles Mingus ; Dizzy Gillespie, Miles [Davis], and 'Trane [that is, John Coltrane] ; Frank Holzfeind ; Irving Townsend ; George Wein ; Jimmy Lyons ; Timme Rosenkranz ; Tony Bennett ; Coleman Hawkins ; Billy Eckstine ; Mahalia Jackson.…”


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Listen to the stories : Nat Hentoff on jazz and country music by Hentoff, Nat

Table of Contents: “…Charlie Parker -- Johnny Hodges -- Duke Ellington -- Count Basie -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Thelonious Monk -- Lester Young -- Willie Smith -- Ben Webster -- Doc Cheatham -- Benny Carter -- Fletcher Henderson -- Jimmy Knepper -- Britt Woodman -- Marvin Stamm -- Dick Katz -- John Lewis -- Lou Tabakin -- Mel Lewis -- Ron Carter -- Dylan Thomas -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Bunny Berigan -- Louis Armstrong -- Billie Holiday -- Anthony Braxton -- Wycliffe Gordon -- Wynton Marsalis -- Roy Hargrove -- Marlon Jordan -- Mark Whitfield -- Nicholas Payton -- Geoff Keezer -- Joshua Redman -- Antonio Hart -- Ron Carter -- Roy Haynes -- Coleman Hawkins -- Lester Young -- Joan Baez -- Danny Barker -- Gus Johnson -- Harry "Sweets" Edison -- Ben Webster -- Jo Jones -- Jimmy Rushing -- Henry "Red" Allen -- Roy Eldridge -- Rex Stewart -- Dicky Wells -- Pee Wee Russell -- Gerry Mulligan.…”


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Complete Royal Roost recordings

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Ben Webster : seven classic albums.

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American music is by Hentoff, Nat

Table of Contents: “…You heard it here first : when the sun goes down ; Joe Williams : he brought the blues from the country to the city ; Jazz and deep Jewish blues ; The everliving blues -- The masters. Jo Jones : the man who played like the wind ; Johnny Hodges : life could be a dream when he blew alto ; Charles Mingus : Mingus lives ; Charles Mingus : the incomplete history of Charles Mingus ; Lester Young : he always told a story ; Duke Ellington : Duke Ellington's mission ; Duke Ellington : the piano player in the band ; Duke Ellington : inside the Ellington band ; Phil Woods : the irrepressible spirit of jazz ; Frankie Newton : the search for Frankie Newton ; Cecil Taylor : it's about music and capturing spirits ; Dizzy Gillespie : Dizzy's life force goes on ; Dick Wellstood : swinging at the Sticket ; Jack Teagarden : Teagarden time ; Carla Bley : Carla goes her own way ; Wycliffe Gordon : the talking trombone ; Louis Armstrong : they would beat Jesus if He was Black and marched ; Louis Armstrong : don't let anybody tell you Louis is dead ; Woody Herman : Wood Herman's down-home personal blues ; Norman Granz : goodbye my friend ; John Coltrane : the spoken essence ; Dave McKenna : King of the Two-Hands ; Ralph Ellison : literary jazzman ; Clifford Brown : a trumpet as sweet as his sound ; Scott Robinson : the sound that time forgot ; Ruby Braff : horn player Ruby Braff was anything but old-fashioned-- Ageless big and small bands. …”


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Ella Fitzgerald live in '57 & '63

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The essential Count Basie. Vol. 2. by Basie, Count, 1904-1984

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Music is my mistress by Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

Table of Contents: “…Cat Anderson ; Joya Sherrill ; Kay Davis ; Marie Ellington ; Jimmy Hamilton ; Paul Gonsalves ; Shorty Baker ; Russell Procope ; Betty Roché ; Al Hibbler ; Wini Brown ; Louis Bellson ; Jimmy Woode ; Sam Woodyard ; Jimmy Grissom ; John Sanders ; Willie Cook ; Clark Terry ; Ernie Shepard ; Joe Turner ; Jimmy Rushing ; Stepin Fetchit ; Jimmy Jones ; Louis Armstrong and Joe Glaser ; Ella Fitzgerald and Norman Granz ; Frank Sinatra ; Orson Welles ; Jo Jones ; Joe Williams ; Charles Mingus ; Dizzy Gillespie, Miles, and 'Trane ; Frank Holzfeind ; Irving Townsend ; George Wein ; Jimmy Lyons ; Timme Rosenkranz ; Tony Bennett ; Coleman Hawkins ; Billy Eckstine ; Mahalia Jackson -- Civilization -- Seeing God -- The sacred concerts -- Acclaim -- Dramatis felidae. …”


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Jazz portraits : the lives and music of the jazz masters by Lyons, Leonard

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The war : a Ken Burns film : the soundtrack. by Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-, Meyer, Edgar, Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

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The complete Lionel Hampton Victor sessions, 1937-1941

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Jazz : a film by Ken Burns

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Jazz : a film by Ken Burns

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