1. Jazz Roots in the Blues
Country and Urban

Listen
All audio materials should be available through the Public Radio MusicSource®, most record stores, The Smithsonian Institution, and some public libraries.

• Bessie Smith: Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo (BBC CD 602)
• Jon Hendricks: Evolution of the Blues Song (Sony Special Products WK 75069)
• The Beauty of the Blues: Roots 'N' Blues (Columbia CK 47465)
• The Roots of Robert Johnson (Yazoo C2K 46222)

View
The videos listed with an asterisk (*) can be ordered from Jamey Aebersold Jazz Inc., P.O. Box 1244C, New Albany, IN 47151-1224 (800-456-1388).

• Big Joe Turner: The English Concert (A 324)*
• Last of the Blue Devils (A23)*
• Land Where the Blues Began (PBS 261) (Order from Pacific Arts, Dept 901 800-441-2828)

Read

• Albertson, Chris. Bessie, Stein and Day. New York, 1972.
• Broadcast Music, Inc. Five Decades of Rhythm and Blues. Broadcast Music, Inc., New York, 1969.
• Charters, Samuel. The Blues Makers. Da Capo Press, New York, 1991.
• Lomax, Alan. The Land Where the Blues Began. Pantheon Books, New York, 1993.
• Oliver, Paul. Aspects of the Blues Tradition. Pantheon Books NewYork, 1993.
• Murray, Albert. Stompin' the Blues. McGraw Hill, New York, 1976.

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