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3 Bebop and Modernism

RECOMMENDED MUSIC

Charlie Parker—Best of the Complete Savoy and Dial Master Takes

(3 CD-set), Savoy Jazz 17120, 1944-48.

Dizzy Gillespie—The Complete RCA Victor Recordings 1937-49

(2-CD set), RCA Victor/Bluebird (BMG) 66528.

Miles Davis–Kind of Blue, Columbia Records CK 64935, 1959.

Sonny Rollins—Saxophone Colossus, Prestige Records OJCCD-291-2, 1956.

Charles Mingus—Mingus Ah Um, Columbia Records CBS 65512, 1959.

Thelonious Monk—The Complete Blue Note Recordings (4-CD set),

Blue Note Records CDP 7243 8 30363 2 5, 1947-58.

Sarah Vaughan—In the Land of Hi-Fi, EmArcy 826454-2, 1955.

FURTHER READING

The Birth of Bebop, by Scott Deveaux

(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).

Latin Jazz: The Perfect Combination, by Raul Fernandez

(San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002).

Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War,

by Penny M. Von Eschen (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004).

RECOMMENDED VIDEOS

Calle 54. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2002.

www.calle54film.com

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four,

by Rebecca Cerese and Steven Channing, 2005.

www.pbs.org/independentlens/februaryone/film.html

ONLINE RESOURCES

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns, New York, America’s Jazz Capital

www.pbs.org/jazz/places/places_new_york.htm

Library of Congress: African American Odyssey,

The Civil Rights Movement, Part 1

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

NPR: “Little Rock’s Central High”

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1028165

CNN: “Cold War”

www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war

Jazz Profiles from NPR: “Miles Davis: Miles Styles”

www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/miles_styles.html

NPR’s Top 100: “A Night in Tunisia”

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1081518

Jazz for Young People Online: Latin and Afro-Cuban Jazz and Thelonius Monk

www.jalc.org/jazzED/j4yp_curr/contentsPage.html

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