The Oxford companion to jazz
edited by Bill Kirchner.
- Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2000.
- xi, 852 p. ill. 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 799-806) and indexes.
African roots of jazz -- European roots of jazz -- Ragtime then and now -- The early origins of jazz -- New York roots: Black Broadway, James Reese Europe, early pianists -- The blues in jazz -- Bessie Smith -- King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet: Ménage à trois, New Orleans style -- Louis Armstrong -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Duke Ellington -- Hot music in the 1920s: the "Jazz Age," appearances and realities -- Pianists of the 1920s and 1930s -- Coleman Hawkins -- Lester Young -- Streamlining jazz: major soloists of the 1930s and 1940s -- Jazz singing: between blues and bebop --Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, and Billie Holiday -- Jazz and the American song -- Pre-swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging -- Swing era big bands and jazz composing and arranging -- The advent of bebop -- The New Orleans revival -- Charlie Parker -- Cool jazz and West Coast jazz -- Jazz and classical music: to the third stream and beyond -- Pianists of the 1940s and 1950s -- Hard bop -- Miles Davis -- Big bands and jazz composing and arranging after World War II -- Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus -- John Coltrane -- The avant-garde, 1949-1967 -- Pianists of the 1960s and 1970s -- Jazz singing since the 1940s -- Jazz since 1968 -- Fusion -- Jazz repertory -- Latin jazz -- Jazz in Europe: the real world music or the full circle -- Jazz and Brazilian music -- Jazz in Africa: the ins and outs -- Jazz in Japan -- Jazz in Canada and Australia -- The clarinet in jazz -- The saxophone in jazz -- The trumpet in jazz -- The trombone in jazz -- The electric guitar and vibraphone in jazz: batteries not included -- Miscellaneous instruments in jazz -- The bass in jazz -- Jazz drumming -- Jazz and dance -- Jazz and film and television -- Jazz clubs --Jazz and American literature -- Jazz criticism -- Jazz education -- Recorded jazz -- Jazz improvisation and concepts of virtuosity.