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Perspectives Available at Bookstores Or on Order, Able in the Bookstores, Are the Sort by Ralph J Marshall Stearns' The Sto>y of Jazz Smith and Fred Ramsey, which is (Oxford). These books are in print, out of print but occasionally avail­ perspectives available at bookstores or on order, able in the bookstores, are the sort By Ralph J. Gleason and give a good, substantial and rea­ of books one can browse through over sonably straightforward account of and over for years. ■ Every year since I began writing what this music is all about, where it Then there’s Keepnews' and a regular jazz column in the San came from, etc. Grauer’s A Pictoiial History of Jazz Francisco Chronicle in 1950, Christ­ As an absolutely invaluable refer­ (Crown), which has some fascinating mastime has brought a number oi in­ ence work and general handbook of pictures and a good summary of tra­ quiries from parents and friends of the field, I recommend Leonard ditional jazz, and the new Jazzmakers lazz fans, as well as from young jazz Feather’s Encyclopedia of Jazz (Ho­ (Rinehart) as source books for bio­ fans themselves concerning books on rizon ). Nowhere else is there such an graphical data and studies of indi­ jazz. amazing assortment of information on vidual men. Condon and Gehman's Recently two teenage high school jazz in a form that is easy to get at. Treasury of Jazz (Dial) is a fat col­ students wrote me that they had be­ Feather’s book is expensive ($10), but lection of jazz writing which is ex­ come interested in jazz (after serving it is one of the best made books of cellent background information, too. a sentence with rock n' toll) and recent years and worth the price. The wanted to learn more about it What These are just a few of the books: biographical section alone is indispen­ books, they asked, could they get to my own shelf has almost a hundred sable and there is a good capsule his­ tell them? separate items. Beware Rex Harris’ tory of jazz, plus other textual matter Well, the average public library pocketbook on jazz. The Story of Jazz, of interest to jazz fans. may not carry a shelf of jazz books, avoid Longstreet’s falacious and ques­ but there are a number of vary ing de­ Then, for a little less of the schol­ tionable The Real Jazz Old and Neiv grees of excellence, which can and arly and more of the romantic side of (frankly, I don’t believe this guy ever will (if read intelligently) provide a jazz (which is a major part of its at­ did the research he said he did). curious fledgling with a fairly well- traction) there’s Hear Me Talkin’ to There are several excellent (in one rounded background of the music and Ya by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro way or another) biographies—Mr. Jel­ the names and numbers of the prin­ (Rinehart) in which the musicians ly Roll by Alan Lomax (Grove); The cipal players. tell their own stories in their own Trouble with Cinderella, Artie Shaw The first two books I always recom­ words, for which there is no sweet (Farrar) and Lady Sings the Blues by mend are Barry Ulanov’s The History substitute. 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