Research Catalog

Title

Jam session : an anthology of jazz.

Author

Gleason, Ralph J.

Publication

• New York : Putnam, [1958]
• ©1958

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Details

Description

319 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• Jazz
• Jazz > États-Unis

Genre/Form

• jazz.
• Jazz.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 315-319.

Contents

• The background of jazz. The blues / Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) -- Spirituals, blues and jazz / Sterling A. Brown -- A New Orleans funeral / Jelly Roll Morton -- A discourse on jazz / Jelly Roll Morton
• The jazz revival. An American original (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
• Some jazz personalities. Fats / W.T. Ed Kirkeby -- Earl "Fatha" Hines / Ralph J. Gleason -- The fabulous gypsy / Gilbert S. McKean -- The Diz and the bebop / Gilbert S. McKean -- Just can't see for lookin' (Nat "King" Cole) / Ralph J. Gleason -- 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
• A jazz miscellany. U.S. conquest : hot "yahtz" / Richard Hanser -- Aspects of the jam session / Bruce Lippincott -- To swing is to affirm / G.V. Kennard, S.J. -- Jazz perspective / Iola & Dave Brubeck -- The cool coast / Ralph J. Gleason -- You dig it, sir? (Newport Jazz Festival) / Lillian Ross -- Jazz is big business / Ralph J. Gleason -- Toward a new form : jazz and poetry / Ralph J. Gleason ; Excerpts from "Autobiography" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti ; Short selection from "The Donovan Train" by Kenneth Ford -- Sparrow's last jump / Elliott Grennard -- Four-bar tag / Baby Bonds.

LCCN

57006725

OCLC

• ocm00191243
• 191243
• SCSB-14690900

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library