Jazz Performers: An Annotated Bibliography of Biographical Materials
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Jazz Performers: An Annotated Bibliography of Biographical Materials
By (Author) Gary Carner
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Greenwood Press
18th July 1990
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Musicians, singers, bands and groups
Composers and songwriters
Bibliographies, catalogues
016.781650922
Physical Properties
Hardback
384
Description
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 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 PhD dissertations. The main section of the work is an alphabetical listing of sources on individual jazz artists and ensembles. Each 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.
Reviews
. . . This is an excellent reference for jazz researchers. . . .-Jazztimes
Stanley Dance rightfully praised Jazz Performers as an "excellent reference for jazz researchers."-African American Review
." . . This is an excellent reference for jazz researchers. . . ."-Jazztimes
"Stanley Dance rightfully praised Jazz Performers as an "excellent reference for jazz researchers.""-African American Review
Author Bio
GARY CARNER teaches Jazz Studies at Assumption College. He has written articles on jazz for the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Black Perspective in Music, Current Musicology, American Book Review, and numerous other publications. He is historian of the Jazz Worcester Society and is currently writing a study of baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams. Mr. Carner is also editing anthologies on composer Billy Strayhorn and on the literature of jazz.
