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Jazz Studies

This guide was designed to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month in April. The Jazz Studies Guide features information and resources on Jazz music from its origins to the present.

Recommended Subject-Focused Encyclopedias

African American Almanac

Electronic Resource
This book features a chapter on "Blues and Jazz -- Chapter 24."

Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz

Nancy Thompson Learning Commons (Library) Main Collection (Third Floor)

Encyclopedia of Jazz

Nancy Thompson Learning Commons (Library) Reference Collection Section (Second Floor)

Guide to Jazz

Nancy Thompson Learning Commons (Library) Main Collection (Third Floor)

Jazz A-Z

Nancy Thompson Learning Commons (Library) Main Collection (Third Floor)

Jazz Cultures

Electronic Resource

Jazz Portraits: The Lives and Music of the Jazz Masters

Nancy Thompson Learning Commons (Library) Main Collection (Second Floor)

Jazz Standards

Electronic Resource

New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

Nancy Thompson Learning Commons Reference Collection Section (Second Floor)
Volumes 1-2

Rise of a Jazz Art World

Electronic Resource

Social History of the United States

Nancy Thompson Learning Commons Reference Collection Section  (Second Floor)
Volumes 1-10

Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide

Electronic Resource

Recommended Online Encyclopedia Databases

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Recommended Multimedia Databases

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