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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Compiled by , Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University

Arranged Chronologically

“Milt Hinton’s Advice to ,” Music and Rhythm, August 1941, p. 38. Nat Hentoff: “No Style or Idiom Fazes the Versatile Milt Hinton,” Down Beat, August 11, 1954, p. 16. Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff: Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya: The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It. New York: Rhinehart, 1955. Max Jones: “Milt Hinton,” Jazz Journal, April 17, 1968, pp. 16-17. Bob Rusch: “Milt Hinton.” Cadence, December 1978, p. 14+. Larry Birnbaum: “Milt Hinton: The Judge Holds Court,” Down Beat, January 25, 1979, pp. 14-16+. Leonard Feather: “Celebrating Milt Hinton: Honoring the Great ,” Jazz Times, May 1985, pp. 12-13+. Todd Coolman: The Bass Tradition. New Albany, IN: Jamey Aebersold, 1985. Includes a transcription of Hinton’s solo on “Flyin’ Home,” recorded July 14, 1976 with . Steve Voce: “A Bass for All Seasons,” Jazz Journal, November 1981, pp. 8-10. Milt Hinton and David G. Berger: “Milt Hinton on Photography,” The Mississippi Rag, November 1988, pp. 1-3. Milt Hinton and David G. Berger, Bass Line: The Stories &Photographs of Milt Hinton, Temple University Press, 1988. Gunther Schuller: The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945. New York: Oxford, 1989. Pp. 344-345 contains a discussion of Hinton’s recordings with Calloway of “Ebony Silhouette” and “Pluckin’ the Bass” with a transcription of the bass solo on the latter. Peter Watrous: “Milt Hinton at 80: A Celebration,” New York Times, June 23, 1990, p. 11. Chris Jisi: “Slap Summit: ‘The Munch’ Meets ‘The Judge’,” Bass Player, March/April 1991, pp. 34-39. Howard Mandel: “Judge for Yourselves!” Down Beat, May 1990, pp. 30-31. Milt Hinton, David G. Berger, and Holly Maxson: Overtime: The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton. San Francisco, Pomegranate, 1991 [paperback 1996]. Julie Lyonn Lieberman: “’The Judge’: Fortitude and Creativity,” Strings, May/June, 1992, pp. 55-59. Herb Wong: “Milt Hinton: Grandmaster of Jazz,” Jazz Educators Journal, Winter 1993, pp. 28-32. Michael Bourne: “Jazz Artists, Jazz Chroniclers: Arthur Taylor & Milt Hinton,” Down Beat, December 1993, pp. 32-35. Greg Robinson: “Milt Hinton: For the Long Haul,” Jazz Times, April 1995, pp. 35- 36. : “The Judge: Milt Hinton,” Jazz Times, April 2000, pp. 52-55+. [Reprinted in Dan Morgenstern: Living With Jazz. New York: Pantheon, 2004, pp. 185-190. : “Milt Hinton: From Mississippi to the White House,” Jazz Research Papers [IAJE], Vol. XX, 2000, pp. 76-80. Chris Jisi and Richard Johnston: “Milt Hinton, 1910-2000: Big Sound, Big Heart: Remembering a Life in Jazz,” Bass Player, March 2001, pp. 54-58+. NOTE: Same issue includes transcription by John Goldsby of Hinton’s solo on “Three Little Words” from Trio Jeepy CD with recorded January 1988. Gene Lees: You Can’t Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat. New Haven: Yale, 2001. ------: “The ISB [International Society of Bassists] Remembers Milt Hinton, 1910-2000,” Bass World, June-September 2001, pp. 5-10. Charles Graham and Dan Morgenstern: The Great Jazz Day. Emeryville, CA: Woodford, 2000, pp. 28-31. [Also includes photos by Hinton.] John Goldsby: The Jazz Bass Book: Technique and Tradition. San Francisco: Backbeat, 2002, pp. 43-47. Milt Hinton, David G. Berger, and Holly Maxson, Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs, Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.

Oral histories of Milt Hinton are in the collections of the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, the Smithsonian Institution Archives Center, the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Jazz Archive.