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Jazz Essays
Visions of Jazz: The First Century
by Gary Giddins
The Oxford Companion to Jazz
Bill Kirchner (ed.) /
Oxford Univ Pr / 808 pages / Oct 2000 /
$39.96 [hc]
Massive book covering the full history of jazz with essays by leading critics.
Singers and the Song II
Gene Lees /
Oxford / 384 pages / 1998 /
$24 [hc]
Waiting For Dizzy: Fourteen Jazz Portraits
Gene Lees /
Cooper Square / 272 pages / 1998 /
$14.36 [pb]
Blutopia : Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of
Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton
Graham Lock /
Duke University / 336 pages / 2000 /
$15.16 [pb]
Bebop and Nothingness: Jazz and Pop at the End of the Century [paperback]
Bebop and Nothingness: Jazz and Pop at the End of the Century [hardcover]
In the Moment: Jazz in the 1980s [paperback]
Outcats: Jazz Composers, Instrumentalists, and Singers [hardcover]
Excellent series of essays on jazz by Francis Davis.
Future Jazz
Howard Mandel /
Oxford Univ Press / 240 pages / 1999 /
$18.20 [hc]
Arcana: Musicians on Music
John Zorn (ed.) /
Granary Books / 320 pages / April 2000 /
$19.96 [pb]
Essays by musicians, including many Zorn-related ones such as Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Marc Ribot, etc.
NEW
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
Lester Bangs /
Anchor Books / 432 pages / Aug 12, 2003 /
[pb]
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