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This bibliography is currently under construction, and contains only some of the Library's holdings on this subject. Unless otherwise noted, all sources are in the Regenstein stacks. Check the Horizon catalog to confirm whether the book you want is charged out. Note: None of this material is in the Chicago Jazz Archive; go directly to the stacks with the call numbers provided below.

Bop history

Davis, Francis. Bebop and nothingness: jazz and pop at the end of the century
New York: Schirmer Books, c1996. ML394.d360

Gitler, Ira. Jazz Masters of the 40's.
ML3561.J4G51

Gitler, Ira. Swing to Bop: An oral history of the transition of jazz in the 1940's.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. ML3508.G53

Gottlieb, Robert, ed. Reading Jazz: A gathering of autobiography, reportage, and criticism from 1919 to now.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. ML3507.R440

Oliphant, Dave, ed. The bebop revolution in words and music.
Austin, Tex.: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, c1994. ML3507.B40

Owens, Thomas. Bebop: the music and its players.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. ML3506.O950

Sales, Grover. Jazz: America's classical music.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall 1984 ML3508.S19 (Harper Lib)

Shaw, Arnold. 52d Street, the street of jazz.
New York:Da Capo Press, 1977. F128.67.F5S50
See chapter "War comes to 52d street" et. seq.

Bop Biographies

Balliett, Whitney. American musicians II: seventy-one portraits in jazz.
New York : Oxford Universtiy Press, 1996. ML395.B360

Hennessey, Mike. Klook : the story of Kenny Clarke.
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. ML419.C59H52

Davis, Miles. Miles, the autobiography / Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe.
New York : Simon and Schuster, c1989. ML419.D3A3 (2 copies: Gen and Harper Lib.)

Gillespie, Dizzy. To be, or not ... to BOP : memoirs
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1979. ML419.G47A3 (Harper Lib)

Horricks, Raymond. Dizzy Gillespie and the be-bop revolution.
Tunbridge Wells : Spellmount ; New York : Hippocrene, 1984. ML419.G54H82

McRae, Barry. Dizzy Gillespie : his life & times.
New York : Universe Books, 1988. ML419.G47M37

De Wilde, Laurent. Monk. Translated by Jonathan Dickinson.
New York : Marlowe, c1997. ML417.M846D4213 (2 copies Gen and Harper Lib)

Giddins, Gary. Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker.
New York : Beech Tree Books, c1987. ML419.P24G52

Carl Woideck, ed. The Charlie Parker companion: six decades of commentary.
New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, 1998. ML419.P24C45

Literature

Lange, Art and Nathaniel Mackey, eds. Moment's Notice: Jazz in poetry and prose.
Minneapolis, MN: Coffeehouse Press, 1993 PS509.J33M660