The Roots of jazz

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Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. American composer and author Alec Wilder described Carmichael as the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented of all the great craftsmen" of pop songs in the first half of the 20th century. Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies, such as television and the use of electronic microphones and sound recordings.

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Sometimes I Wonder

Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet

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Entertaining remembrances of a jazz and songwriting great. The parts of the book about his early days in Bloomington, New York, and Hollywood are particularly evocative. Falls apart a bit as the story gets to the stage of his life when he's quite successful, having "made it" as a public personality. The tales of the Book Nook are amazing though. Well worth a read for anyone interested in his music, Bloomington history, the early days of jazz, or songwriting.

An introduction to jazz, discussing what it is, how it originated and developed, its importance as an art form, the different styles, and prominent jazz musicians.

Sometimes I Wonder

Jazz, a people's music

Django Reinhardt

The jazz scene

Inside jazz

We called it music

Combo, USA

Nobody: the story of Bert Williams

The jazz titans, including "The parlance of hip"

The Jazz Life

The Roots of jazz

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