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Ron Hikel’s – Jazz Talk
August 2, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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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