Essential Jazz Records

Volume 1: Ragtime to Swing

By: Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker

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Paperback | 1 December 1999 | Edition Number 1

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First published in 1984 and reissued to coincide with the publication of the second volume, this selection of the 250 best jazz records traces the earliest roots of the music to the beginnings of the modern jazz era. Volume One's focus is on LP collections of 78 rpm originals and nearly every significant musician -- both familiar and obscure -- of early 20th-century jazz is listed. For each record listed, full details of personnel, recording dates and locations are provided.

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"All collectors will welcome the meticulous documentation of recording dates, titles, and personnel . . . a valuable addition to jazz criticism, discography and . . . historiography." Popular Music

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Preface to the 1999 Reprint	p. vii
Introduction	p. viii
Abbreviations	p. xi
Origins	p. 1
Prelude: the Afro-American background	p. 1
Ragtime	p. 11
Proto-jazz and the earliest recordings in New York	p. 19
New Orleans	p. 33
The Twenties Variations on the New Orleans style	p. 65
The Chicago version	p. 65
The classic style	p. 83
New Orleans composer	p. 89
The breakdown of the collective style	p. 100
The 'second line': the Chicagoans	p. 118
The Twenties Styles other than New Orleans	p. 125
Chicago and Harlem small bands of the late 1920s	p. 125
Midwestern jazz, Bix and the New Yorkers	p. 133
The early big bands	p. 164
Blues singers and jazz	p. 200
Jazz in Europe	p. 213
Interlude: The Influence of jazz on European composers	p. 243
The Thirties and swing	p. 253
The early 1930s	p. 253
Major big bands of the swing era	p. 292
Recording units from the big bands	p. 350
52nd Street	p. 373
Swing continues	p. 462
Against the current: Traditional survivals and revivals	p. 497
The transition to modern jazz	p. 539
Notes	p. 553
Bibliography	p. 561
Index of LP titles	p. 567
Index of tune titles	p. 572
Index of musicians	p. 579
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Essential Jazz Records

Volume 1: Ragtime to Swing

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