Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources on free jazz, with comprehensive coverage of English-language academic books, journal articles, and dissertations, and selective coverage of trade books, popular periodicals, documentary films, scores, Masters’ theses, online texts, and materials in other languages.Free Jazz will be a major reference tool for students, faculty, librarians, artists, scholars, critics, and serious fans navigating this literature.
Jeff Schwartz is a reference librarian at the Santa Monica Public Library and a working bassist.
Introduction General Works Pioneers New York 1 – The New Thing Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Other US Scenes International New York 2 – Loft Jazz, Downtown, and Beyond Index
