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Selected Bibliography and Discography Lists

Brower, Steven.  Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong.  New York:
    Abrams, 2009.  ML419.A75 B83 2009

Burns, Kristine H., ed. Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia.
    Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
    ML82 .W625 2002

Cook, Richard. Richard Cook’s Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin, 2005. ML102.J3 C66x 2005

Cuscuna, Michael.  The Blue Note Label: A DiscographyWestport, Conn. : Greenwood
    Press, 2001.  
ML156.4.J3 C87 2001

Dicaire, David.  Jazz Musicians, 1945 to the Present. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co.,
    c2006. 
ML394 .D53 2006

Lee, William F.  American Big BandsMilwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard, c2005.
   
ML3518 .L44 2005

Kernfeld, Barry Dean.  The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. New York : Grove's Dictionaries Inc.,
    2002.   
ML102.J3 N48 2002

Leder, Jan.  Women in Jazz: A Discography of Instrumental Music, 1913-1968. Westport,
    Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1985.  
ML156.4 J3 L44 1985

Leonard, Herman.  Jazz.  New York: Bloomsbury, 2010.  ML3508.8.N5 L46 2010

Lesser, Beth.  Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall CultureLondon : Soul
    Jazz
Pub; [New York] : Distributed by D.A.P., 2008. 
ML3918.R44 L47x 2008

Meadows, Eddie S.  Jazz Scholarship and Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide
    New York: Routledge, 2006. 
ML128.J3 M34 2005

Swenson, John.  The Rolling Stone Jazz and Blues Album Guide.  New York: Random House,
    1999. 
ML156.4.J3 R65 1999

Yanow, Scott.  Bebop.  Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 2000.  ML3508 .Y36 2000

Yanow, Scott.  Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years.  Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Pub.,
    c2003. 
ML156.4.J3 Y36 2003

Yanow, Scott.  The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide.  New York : Backbeat Books, 2008. ML400 .Y35 2008

Yanow, Scott.  Swing.  San Francisco, CA: Miller Freeman Books, 2000.  ML3518 .Y36 2000

Suggested Call Numbers for Shelf Browsing

Range Contents
M1366 Jazz Ensembles
M1470-1473 Chance Compositions and Electronic music
M1630.18 Popular Music (Includes Fake Books)
ML1 Periodicals and Serials Published in the United States
ML5 Periodicals and Serials, Foreign 1801 -
ML156 Discographies
ML156.4.J3 Jazz Discographies
ML198 – 239 Music History and Criticism--America
ML390 Biographies--General composers
ML394 – 402 Biographies--Performers
ML410 Biographies--Individual composers
ML430 - 455 Composition
ML3469 - 3541 Popular Music
ML3505-3509, 3528

Popular Music--Jazz

ML 3795 Musical Life
ML3800 - 3817 Philosophy and physics of music
ML3845 – 3855 Aesthetics
MT68 Improvisation