JazzStandards Bookstore (<i>Broadway: An Encyclopedia</i>)

Broadway: An Encyclopedia is Ken Bloom’s guide to the history, people, and places of Times Square, including entries for the major theaters, playwrights, composers, lyricists, producers, and performers. The book is organized as an encyclopedia with alphabetical listings regardless of whether the entry is a person, place or thing.

With regard to recreational reading or research on the jazz standards, this fascinating encyclopedia is a good coffee-table reader and also a serious reference book, especially for the biographies of composers, lyricists, and the performers who introduced many of the songs on stage. The index lists the people, theaters, and shows, but not the songs.

Ken Bloom is also the author of Broadway Musicals : The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time; Hollywood Song: The Complete Film & Musical Companion; American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion 1877-1995; and American Song: The Complete Companion to Tin Pan Alley Song.

About the Bookstore

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The JazzStandards.com bookstore provides you with a catalog of 200 books associated with the jazz standards. Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading.

Some of our books may be found at Amazon for two or three dollars!

The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com are listed in this bookstore and may be considered the site bibliography.

The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book's relevance to the subject. If there is a book you feel we have overlooked, please let us know the title and how it supports the research or recreational study of the jazz standards.

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