Showing posts with label John Coltrane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Coltrane. Show all posts

Friday, October 30, 2009

New Reference Books

The following reference books recently arrived in the Music Library:

Cohen, Norm. American Folk Songs: A Regional Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 2 vols. Call no. MUR ML3551 .C55 2008.

Comeau, Gilles. Piano Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies, ed. Jennifer C. Post. New York: Routledge, 2009. Call no. MUR ML128.P3 C66 2009.

--This resource is a numbered, annotated bibliography.

Cook, Richard, and Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 9th ed. London: Penguin Books, 2008. Call no. MUR ML156.4.J3 C68 2008.

--A selected, annotated discography, this book is arranged alphabetically and consists of 1646 pages.

DeVito, Chris, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Wolf Schmaler, and David Wild. The John Coltrane Reference. Edited by Lewis Porter. New York: Routledge, 2008. Call no. MUR ML156.7.C58 J64 2008.

--Consisting of a chronology and discography, this book provides a quick reference to the details of Coltrane's career.

Draayer, Suzanne Rhodes. Art Song Composers of Spain: An Encyclopedia. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009. Call no. MUR ML106.S7 D73 2009.

Fishman, Stephen. The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More, 4th ed. Berkeley, CA: Nolo, 2008. Call no. MUR KF3022 .F575 2008.

Timner, W. E. Ellingtonia: The Recorded Music of Duke Ellington and His Sidmen, 5th ed. Studies in Jazz, no. 54, ed. Dan Morgenstern and Edward Berger. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007. Call no. MUR ML156.5.E45 T5 2007.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Some new items

The Music Library recently received two items worth highlighting in the blog:

Griffin, Farah Jasmine, and Salim Washington. Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008. Call no. MUX ML3508 .G75 2008.

and

Armstrong, Louis. The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings. Columbia C4K 63527. 4 compact discs. Call no. MUB CDisc. M1366.A767 C6 2000.

The Louis Armstrong CD set is beautifully packaged with an 83 page booklet.