2. Jazz From Traditional to Swing
New Orleans, Kansas City, Chicago,
Los Angeles, and New York

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

• Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz (RD 033-1-5)
• Smithsonian Big Band Jazz (RD 030)
• Smithsonian Big Band Renaissance (RD 108)
• Smithsonian Jazz Piano (RD 108)
• Riverside History of Classic Jazz (Fantasy/Riverside VDJ 712-1575)
• 50 Years of Jazz Guitar (Sony Special Products W 2K 75057 WK 75039)

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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).

• New Orleans: 'Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down (A33)*
• Duke and His Orchestra 1929-1941 (A 114)*
• Louis Armstrong: Stockholm 1962 (A 326)*

Read

• Balliet Whitney. Jelly, Jabbo, and Fats: 19 Portraits in Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York, 1983.
• Blesh, Rudi. Shining Trumpets, A History of Jazz. 2nd Edition. Da Dapo Press, NewYork, 1975.
• Blesh Rudi, and Harriet Janis. They All Played Ragtime. 4th Edition. Oak Publications, New York, 1971.
• Gottlieb, Robert, editor. Reading Jazz from 1919 to Now. Pantheon Books, New York, 1996.
• Schuller, Guther. Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development. Oxford University Press, New York, 1968.

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