Jazz Performers

This work puts together in one volume all the book and scholarly materials related to jazz lives and organizes them in such a way that the reader at a glance can see the entire sweep of writings on a given artist and grasp the nature of their contents. The bibliography includes many different kinds of biographical source material published in all languages from 1921 to the present such as biographies autobiographies interview collections musical treatises bio-discographies anthologies of newspaper articles Master theses and Ph.D. dissertations. With few exceptions a work of at least 50 pages in length merits inclusion providing it has a substantive biographical component or aids jazz research.The main section of the work is an alphabetical listing of sources on individual jazz artists and ensembles. Jazz artists as defined by Carner are those who have made their mark as jazz performers and who have led the jazz life playing the clubs and joints not the legitimate concert stage Broadway Las Vegas or the like. Thus musicians such as Ray Charles or Frank Sinatra who have recorded and performed with jazz ensembles do not qualify for inclusion. Each bonafide jazz musician is given a separate section with birth death and primary instrumentation provided. Biographical sources about the artist or ensemble follow. Each entry is annotated to differentiate it from another and to present basic data on the source''s content such as the inclusion of a discography bibliography music examples and transcriptions footnotes indexes illustrations filmographies and glossaries. An invaluable tool for jazz researchers and historians Jazz Performers will also appeal to jazz enthusiasts in general.