Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide [Hardcover]

Introduction  General Works  Pioneers  New York 1  The New Thing  Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Other US Scenes  International  New York 2  Loft Jazz, Downtown, and Beyond  Index

Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources on free jazz, with comprehensive coverage of English-language academic books, journal articles, and dissertations, and selective coverage of trade books, popular periodicals, documentary films, scores, Masters theses, online texts, and materials in other languages.

Free Jazz will be a major reference tool for students, faculty, librarians, artists, scholars, critics, and serious fans navigating this literature.

Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources on free jazz, with comprehensive coverage of English-language academic books, journal articles, and dissertations, and selective coverage of trade books, popular periodicals, documentary films, scores, Masters theses, online texts, and materials in other languages.

Jeff Schwartz is a reference librarian at the Santa Monica Public Library and a working bassist.