General References:
How to use them:
You might want to hold off on the general references to start with and look at the books on the subject. These references are particularly helpful when you want to verify information about a style or technique.
Come back to them when you have identified a technique and want to find out more about it or to help you identify further techniques after you have already discovered some.
They are digital resources that are only available to one user at a time. To access them you need to make an account on open library. To do this go to the page and enter your school email.
These are authoritative scholarly works so they may be a bit more technical than the other resources you look at.
These are the specific versions that relate to Jazz as a genre of music. They provide information about musicians, musical styles or genres and musical features and techniques.
Kernfeld, Barry. (Ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Kirchner, Bill. (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to Jazz.
These books contain excellent articles that model the use of musical terminology in describing different Jazz techniques. You can search them using key terms after you have identified a musical feature or technique.
Click on the magnifying glass on the side and enter a search word you want to find in the text.
You will need to “borrow” them and return them so others can then use them.