Williams, Martin T.  1924-1992 <br/><br/>
The art of jazz :  essays on the nature and development of jazz / 
edited by Martin T. Williams 
 - London :  Cassell & Company Ltd.,  1960. 
 - 248 p. :  music ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Discography: pages [239]-241. 
<br/><br/> Prologue : Sidney Bechet in Europe, 1919 / Ernest Ansermet --   Sonny Terry and his blues / Marshall Stearns --   Ragtime / Guy Waterman :  I. A Survey ;  II. Joplin's Late Rags --  Jelly Roll Morton and the Frog-i-more Rag / William Russell --   King Oliver's creole jazz band / Larry Gushee --  James P. Johnson / Ross Russell --   Dixieland / Orrin Keepnews --   Bix Beiderbecke / George Avakian --   Bessie Smith / George Avakian --   Recording limits and blues form / Martin Williams --  Three boogie-woogie blues pianists / William Russell :  I. Clarence Lofton ;  II. Jimmy Yancey ;  III. Meade "Lux" Lewis --  Big Maceo / Paul Oliver --   Duke Ellington in the nineteen-thirties / Charles Fox --   Duke Ellington / Vic Bellerby --   Billie Holiday / Glenn Coulter --   The genius of Art Tatum / Andre Hodeir --   Charlie Christian / Al Avakian and Bob Prince --  Bebop / Ross Russell :  I. Bop Rhythm ;  II. The Evolutionary Position of Bop ;  III. Brass ;  IV. The Parent Style and Lester Young --  Two notes on modern jazzmen / Paul Bacon --  Looking back at the modern jazz quartet / Max Williams --   The funky-hard bop regresion / Martin Williams. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0306795566 9780306795565 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>59011751  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jazz--History and criticism.<br/>Jazz--History and criticism.<br/>Jazz musicians.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML3561.J3  / W53 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>781.65 WIL