Jam session : an anthology of jazz /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gleason, Ralph J. (ed.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons c1958
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Table of Contents:
  • The background of jazz. The Blues / Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly)
  • Spirituals, blues and jazz / Sterling A. Brown
  • A New Orleans funeral ; A discourse on jazz / Jelly Roll Morton.
  • A jazz miscellany. U. S. conquest : Hot "Yahtz" / Richard Hanser
  • Aspects of the jam session / Bruce Lippinscott
  • To swing is to affirm / G. V. Kennard, S. J.
  • Jazz perspective / Lola & Dave Brubeck
  • The cool coast / Ralph J. Gleason
  • You dig it, sir? (Newport Jazz Festival) / Lillian Ross
  • Jazz is a big business ; Rhythm and blues (and rock 'n roll) makes the grade ; Toward a new form : jazz and poetry / Ralph J. Gleason
  • Excerpts from "Autobiography" / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Short selection from "The Donovan Train" / Kenneth Ford
  • Sparrow's last jump / Elliott Grennard
  • Four-bag tag / Baby Dodds.
  • Some jazz personalities. Fats / W. T. Ed Kirkeby
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines / Ralph J. Gleason
  • The Fabulous Gypsy ; The Diz and the Bebop / Gilbert S. McKean
  • Just can't see for lookin' (Nat "King" Cole) [sic] ; Erroll Garner / Ralph J. Gleason.
  • The coming of modern jazz. What is this thing called jazz? / Henry Pleasants
  • The basis of bop / Rossell Hope Robbins
  • A portrait of the hipster / Anatole Broyard.
  • The growth of the jazz culture. Breakfast dance, in Harlem / Otis Ferguson
  • Chicago / Art Hodes
  • Young man with a horn / Otis Ferguson
  • Homage to Bunny ; Eddie Condon / George Frazier
  • Number one swing man / Irving Kolodin.
  • The jazz revival. An American orginal (Jelly Roll Morton) / Arna Bontemps & Jack Conroy
  • The Bunk Johnson story : introduction to Bunk / Willie G. (Bunk) Johnson
  • The Bunk Johnson story : farewell to Bunk / Ralph J. Gleason
  • Turk Murphy / Gilbert Millstein.