JazzStandards Bookstore (<i>The Oxford Companion to Popular Music</i>)

This encyclopedic look at popular music by British author and critic Peter Gammond covers every musical style from ragtime to rock. It is arranged alphabetically by topic which includes composers, lyricists, performers, films, Broadway shows, even the famous New York nightclub, Birdland.

For jazz standards research this is a great desk reference for concise biographies, stage musical plot outlines, and essays on musical genres. It is well cross-referenced and includes three indexes: individuals and groups, shows and films, and songs and albums.

Peter Gammond is the author of numerous books on jazz and popular music, classical composers, and recordings. His musical biographies include Duke Ellington: His Life and Music and Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era. He also contributed to The New Oxford Companion to Music.

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.

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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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