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, at a glance, 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 Ph.D. dissertations. With few exceptions, a work
of at least 50 pages in length merits inclusion, providing it has a
substantive biographical component or aids jazz research. The main
section of the work is an alphabetical listing of sources on
individual jazz artists and ensembles. Jazz artists, as defined by
Carner, are those who have made their mark as jazz performers and
who have led the "jazz life," playing the clubs and "joints," not
the "legitimate" concert stage, Broadway, Las Vegas, or the like.
Thus, musicians such as Ray Charles or Frank Sinatra, who have
recorded and performed with jazz ensembles, do not qualify for
inclusion. Each bonafide 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.
An invaluable tool for jazz researchers and historians, Jazz
Performers will also appeal tojazz enthusiasts in general.
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