An appreciation of jazz, looking at some of the outstanding events of its development. It attempts to redress the balance in favour of many neglected musicians whose greatness is clear from their recordings and it examines the legends concerning both the origins and the nature of jazz.

My Kind of Jazz

Biographies & Memoirs

Rust, Brian

Arts & Literature

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Discography of Historical Records on Cylinders and 78s

Arts & Photography

Music

Greenwood

The Complete Entertainment Discography: From 1897-1942 (Roots of Jazz Series) Updated and Expanded Edition

Debus, Allen G

Da Capo Press

The American Record Label Book (The Roots of Jazz)

This detailed compilation of Columbia recordings gathers information about every Columbia disc record made between 1901 and 1934 and designed for American use. The listings also include recordings that were never issued. Recording dates, including re-makes, titles, composers, artists, and catalogue numbers (when allocated for issue) are shown. Where available in the original company files, the details of accompanists to soloists, the vocalists on dance records, and the pseudonyms often employed by certain artists are all shown in detail. A history of the Columbia Phonograph Company to 1934, and analysis of its recording programs and printed matter is also included. The work is divided among four volumes. The first volume covers the Matrix Series 1 through 4999 spanning the years 1901 to 1910. The second volume covers the Principal U.S. Matrix Series spanning the years 1910 to 1924. The third volume covers the Principal U.S. Matrix Series spanning the years 1924 to 1934. The fourth volume covers the 12-inch U.S. Matrix Series spanning the years 1906 to 1931. Some 28,000 titles are included that trace the changes in popular taste during the first third of the 20th century.
Record collectors, music historians and researchers will appreciate the vast amount of titles and detailed information about the Columbia recordings catalogued in these four volumes. Separately or as a complete set, this work contains valuable historical accuracy and exhaustive research.

The Columbia Master Book Discography (4 Volume Set)

Brooks, Timothy H.

From 1939 until the late 1960s, much of the best in recorded mainstream jazz was issued on the Blue Note label, which set the standard for excellence in both music and production. . . . The present work provides complete discographical information on every recording made or issued by Blue Note. Included is also an index of listed artists, a history of the label, and 11 pages of photographs. Although partial discographies of the Blue Note catalog have been published previously, this is the first comprehensive one to appear. One of the authors is an acknowledged authority on Blue Note and the other is a widely published discographer. Because of the importance of Blue Note in the history of jazz, this meticulously prepared book would be a worthwhile addition to any music reference section in either public or academic libraries. Choice
This discography consists of a complete listing of all the sessions recorded by the Blue Note label, starting in 1939, and extending through the label's temporary demise in 1981 and subsequent revitalization in 1985. The first part of the discography details all the sessions conducted by Lion and Wolff from 1939 through mid-1967. All existing takes are listed and numbered. The next section lists all the Blue Note sessions of 1967 through 1979, when the label became part of the Liberty and then EMI recording companies. Part 3 and 4 of the discography list Blue Note reissues of material from EMI and other labels. Part 5 details Blue Note sessions made or issued by the new Blue Note series, which was started in 1985. Sessions are listed with all available information on personnel, recording locations and dates, and master and issue numbers. Part 6 lists single series, Part 7 lists album series, and both provide comprehensive lists of foreign issues along with a table of equivalent U.S. singles or albums. Foreign reissues that are identical to U.S. issues are not listed. The work then provides compact disc and cassette tape listings, and concludes with an artist index. The index contains all the names appearing in the session listings, and indicates cases where the artists appeared as sideman.

The Blue Note Label: A Discography (Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference)

Ruppli, Michel

Although somewhat more specialized than the Atlantic set because of Prestige's emphasis on jazz, this work is valuable for record collectors and researchers. American Reference Books Annual

The Prestige Label: A Discography (Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference)

Standard library cataloging rules are ill-adapted for the most part to serving the needs of the users or the compilers of discographies. . . . Rust offers a [broad] view of how the discipline has developed to date, since his interests lie in jazz and popular music, where much of the early discographical work was done. Choice

Brian Rust's Guide to Discography (Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference)

Knowledge of just what recordings of classical music have been issued in the Soviet Union has been very limited to date, since only a small number of such recordings have been licensed for production and sale by West European and American companies. . . . Bennett's discography of all LP recordings issued in Russia since 1951 is thus a valuable research tool for the serious record collector and music library. Choice

Melodiya: A Soviet Russian L.P. Discography (Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference)

Bennett, John R.

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My Kind of Jazz

Discography of Historical Records on Cylinders and 78s

The Complete Entertainment Discography: From 1897-1942 (Roots of Jazz Series) Updated and Expanded Edition

The American Record Label Book (The Roots of Jazz)

Discography of Historical Records on Cylinders and 78s

The Columbia Master Book Discography (4 Volume Set)

The Blue Note Label: A Discography (Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference)

The Prestige Label: A Discography (Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference)

Brian Rust's Guide to Discography (Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference)

Melodiya: A Soviet Russian L.P. Discography (Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference)