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The story of jazz

by Rex Harris ; edited under the supervision of Thomas K. Scherman ; [with an afterword and discography by Sheldon Meyer]

Greenwood Press, 1980, c1960

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Reprint of the ed. published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, in series: The Little music library

An abridgement of Jazz, first published in 1952

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Chapter headings demarcate the extent of the book's coverage: Formation of the Classic Jazz; Ragtime and Early White Jazz; The Pioneer Jazzmen; Exodus from New Orleans; The Great Individualists; Piano Jazz; the Influence of European Orthodoxy in Arrangements; American Commercial Exploitation; The White School; Renaissance.

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