FolkLib Index - Folk Music Bibliography Profiles

      This page lists the musicians profiled in selected books on my Folk Music Bibliography page. Only those books that have about 30 or fewer total profiles are detailed here. All names below are listed in alphabetical order even if they do not appear in that order in the book.

1. #ns - Balliett, Whitney. - "Jelly Roll, Jabbo & Fats: 19 Portraits in Jazz" {A}
         Discographers: Hugues Panassie, Charles Delaunay; Musicians: Sidney Bechet, Tommy Benford, Doc Cheatham, Ornette Coleman, Vic Dickenson, Erroll Garner, Sonny Greer, Lee Konitz, Ellis Larkins, Dave McKenna, Freddie Moore, Michael Moore, Jelly Roll Morton, Jabbo Smith, Fats Waller, Dick Wellstood, Lester Young

2. #nu - Bruccoli, Matthew & C.E. Frazer Clark, Jr. - "Conversations with Jazz Musicians, Volume 2" {A}
         All interviews by Zane Knauss (1927-): Louis Bellson, Leon Breeden, Dizzy Gillespie, Eric Kloss, Jimmy McPartland, Barry Miles, Sy Oliver, Charlie Spivak, Billy Taylor, Phil Woods, Sol Yaged,

3. #oe - Gourse, Leslie. - "Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists" {A}
         Those with a specific chapter or section about her: Jane Ira Bloom, Joanne Brackeen, Judy Carmichael, Terri Lyne Carrington, Dorothy Donegan, Bertha Hope, Shirley Horn, Lee Ann Ledgerwood, Kit McClure, Marian McPartland, Emily Remler, Michele Rosewoman, Maria Schneider, Carol Steele, Carol Sudhalter, Tracy Wormworth

4. #sn - Lyons, Len - "The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking of Their Lives and Music" {A}
         27 Interviews: Toshiko Akiyoshi, Ran Blake, Paul Bley, Dave Brubeck, John "Jaki" Byard, Armando "Chick" Corea, Bill Evans, William "Red" Garland, Herbie Hancock, Ahmad Jamal, Keith Jarrett, Steve Kuhn, John Lewis, Ramsey Lewis, Marian McPartland, Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Rowles, George Shearing, Horace Silver, Sun Ra, Billy Taylor, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, Randolph "Randy" Weston, Mary Lou Williams, Theodore "Teddy" Wilson, Josef "Joe" Zawinul

5. #mx - Sidran, Ben - "Talking Jazz: An Oral History, expanded ed." {A}
         43 Interviews: Pepper Adams, Mose Allison, George Benson, Art Blakey, Carla Bley, Charles Brown, Betty Carter, Don Cherry, Miles Davis, Jack DeJohnette, Dr. John, Gil Evans, Donald Fagen, Steve Gadd, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Dave Grusin, Herbie Hancock, John Hendricks, Abdullah Ibrahim, Bob James, Keith Jarrett, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Jackie McLean, Jay McShann, Frank Morgan, David Murray, Michel Petrucciani, Max Roach, Red Rodney, Sonny Rollins, Willie Ruff, Joe Sample, Archie Shepp, Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner, Rudy Van Gelder, Tony Williams, Phil Woods, Denny Zeitlin

6. #or - Terkel, Studs - "Giants of Jazz" {A}{F}
         13 Profiles: Louis Armstrong 18-32, Count Basie 112-23, Bix Beiderbecke 47-60, John Coltrane 175-81 Duke Ellington 75-93, Dizzy Gillespie 150-65, Benny Goodman 94-111, Woody Herman 137-49, Billie Holiday 124-36, Joe Oliver 1-17, Charlie Parker 166-74, Bessie Smith 33-46, Fats Waller 61-74,

7. #os - Ullman, Michael - "Jazz Lives: Portraits in Words and Pictures" {A}
         22 Biographies: Steve Backer, Karl Berger, Ran Blake, Anthony Braxton, Betty Carter, Doc Cheatham, Maxwell Cohen, Tommy Flanagan, Dexter Gordon, Maxine Gregg, Neal Hefti, Earl Hines & Dizzy Gillespie, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Marian McPartland, Ray Mantilla, Ken McIntyre, Charles Mingus, Sam Rivers, Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, John Snyder, Joe Venuti

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