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JAZZ
What is Jazz? According to Webster, it is "American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre" Obviously there is a lot to learn and enjoy in jazz music.
Gwinnett County Public Library provides great resources for established fans and those just beginning to explore this unique American art form.
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Jazz: The Rough Guide Edited by Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather and Brian Priestley	Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its second Century by Gary Giddens	Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz [available as downloadable audio book & book] by John Szwed

Visions of Jazz: the First Century by Gary Giddins	Giants of Jazz by Studs Terkel	Jazz: a History of America’s Music by Geoffrey C. Ward

Keep Cool: The Black Activists Who Built the Jazz Age [e-book] by Ted Vincent (in netLibrary,enter title to view e-book)	The Oxford Companion to Jazz by Bill Kirchner	Living with Jazz: a Reader by Sheldon Meyer

Jazz in the Bitter Sweet Blues of Life by Wynton Marsalis	The Jazz Exiles: American Musicians Abroad [e-book] by Bill Moody	Jazz: A Crash Course by Simon Adams

Web Sites Links to over 40 web sites covering Jazz, ranging from the Smithsonian Museum of Jazz to the The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz