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Journal of Jazz Studies Lot of 8 Issues (1973-1979) incl. Volume 1 Number 1

Journal of Jazz Studies Lot of 8 Issues (1973-1979) incl. Volume 1 Number 1

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Book Notes: All 8 issues: covers clean and bright with light shelf wear to the edges and corners; spines intact Fall/Winter 1978 issue: a few small chips along the top edge of the front cover Pages clean and lightly toned in the pages shown; bindings tight Fall 1975 issue: previous owner's address label on the front cover; includes the folded supplement table for the Smithsonian Collection review

Author(s): Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies

Condition: Very Good
ISBN:

Eight issues of the Journal of Jazz Studies, published by the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, including the first issue (Volume 1, Number 1, October 1973). The journal was published twice a year through 1979 and was continued by the Annual Review of Jazz Studies.

Issues included:

  • Vol. 1 No. 1 (October 1973): Fats Waller: The Outside Insider (Morroe Berger); It Ain't the Blues: Billie Holiday, Sidney J. Furie and Kitsch; Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Fives; Authenticity and Originality in Jazz; Discography as a Tool for Musical Research; Reminiscences of Marshall Stearns; The Prestige 24000 Series
  • Vol. 2 No. 1 (December 1974)
  • Vol. 2 No. 2 (June 1975): Charlie Parker and be-bop composition; American jazz ideologies; jazzmen as romantic outsiders; Charlie Parker ornithology; jazz from the forties; Walter C. Allen memorial
  • Vol. 3 No. 1 (Fall 1975): the voodoo trail to jazz; Teschemacher reappraisal; the Smithsonian Collection review essay with its folded supplement table; Armstrong's style 1925-29; ragtime arranging
  • Vol. 3 No. 2 (Spring 1976): from ragtime to improvised piano; King Oliver's 1923 recordings; English-language jazz periodicals
  • Vol. 4 No. 2 (Spring/Summer 1977): ragtime piano; Elvin Jones; Joe Sullivan; New Orleans and stride piano; Eddie Condon; jazz and mandolin
  • Vol. 5 No. 1 (Fall/Winter 1978): jazz historiography; Benny Carter arrangements; Elvin Jones interview; Whiteman's recording of Concerto in F; Little Walter
  • Vol. 5 No. 2 (Spring/Summer 1979): mapping the jazz market; left hand in jazz piano; sexual imagery in blues; the black bar; recent reference books

Contents as printed on the covers and contents pages. ISSN 0093-3686.

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