[Dixielandjazz] Books: ABE Books

[dwlit at cpcug.org]

ABE Books has loads of them, but the prices sometimes are pretty
outrageous. Fortunately the entries are arranged by price.

While we're at it, I recommend:

Clayton, Peter, 1927- The Guinness Jazz Companion, Middlesex UK, Guinness
Books, 1989. 262p. Out of print. A readers guide in dictionary format.
Bix? You go to this book not for biography, but to find out what a "bix"
is. It does cover some modern jazz, but deals mainly with traditional jazz
and dixieland, explaining a great variety of terms and concepts in
American jazz to Martians, Brits, Ozzies, and will be most useful to those
other aliens, modern Americans. It has wonderful pictures from the early
days, and maps of cities showing key points in history such as key clubs
and ballrooms. Much on the British trad scene.

ABE Books has a goodly number of these, most at reasonable prices.

--Sheik

> Sheik wrote:
>
> A really great survey of the 20s jazz and pop music that includes
> discussion of your topic is:
>
> Arnold Shaw, "The Jazz Age: Popular music in the 1920's." Oxford
> University Press, 1987. Out of Print.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> A really good source of used books of all kinds is American Book Exchange
> (www.abebooks.com).
> Some copies of the Shaw book are available there right now, at very
> reasonable prices.  I
> bought my copy of New Orleans Jazz: A Family Album from an ABEBooks
> vendor.
>
> Regards,
> Dave Stoddard
> Round Rock, TX