Music aficionado Ron Hikel gives us a special talk about the history and importance of jazz, and how it is woven into our world’s cultural stories.  With live music examples from our SSM All-Stars!!

Thank you all for joining us. Here are the reference books mentioned at Ron Hikel’s Jazz Talk.

Books:

Eric Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction

Gary Giddens, Visions of Jazz: The First Century

Gary Giddens and Scott DeVeaux, Jazz

Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz (3rd Edition March 2021)

Edward Lee, Jazz: An Introduction

Alan Lomax, Mr. Jelly Roll

Donald M. Marquis, In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz

James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Frederic Ramsey and Charles E. Smith, Jazzmen, Harcourt & Brace, 1939

Other:

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (there is a later 2022 edition)

Journal of Jazz Studies, Institute of Jazz Studies, Newark NJ