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Music - 20th Century Jazz: Jazz in the Library

A guide to information resources and services for applied music students

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Library Databases

EBSCOhost
This widely ranging college resource has thousands of magazines and journals, Try Academic Search Premier or Australia / New Zealand Reference Centre.
Oxford History of Western Music
This has lots of reference information, especially information about classical music from the New Grove Dictionary.
Standards
Australian and international standards. Includes standards for IT, acoustics, and electronic equipment.

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Recommended Books

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music by Nicholas Cook (Editor); Anthony Pople (Editor)
Call Number: 780.904 CAM

ISBN: 0521662567
Jazz Piano Technique by John Valerio
Call Number: MU 786.2165 VAL

ISBN: 9781423498155

Publication Date: 2013
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald : the jazz singer who transformed American song by Judith Tick
Call Number: 782.42165 FIT

ISBN: 1324105224

Publication Date: 2025
The Very Best of Oscar Peterson by Oscar Peterson (Other Primary Creator)
Call Number: MU 782.4216 Pet

ISBN: 0634077775
The Big Book of Jazz Piano Improvisation by Noah Baerman
Call Number: MU 786.2193 BAE

ISBN: 9780739031711
The Penguin Jazz Guide by Brian Morton; Richard Cook
Call Number: 781.650266 COO

ISBN: 9780141048314

Publication Date: 2010
R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz and Country by Stephen Calt (Text by); David Jasen (Text by); Robert Crumb; Richard Nevins (Text by); Terry Zwigoff (Introduction by)
Call Number: 781.640922 CAL

ISBN: 9780810930865