Resources

Ray Brown’s Most Important Advice for Bass Players

Online Resources (Wesleyan access only)

• Grove Music Online, “Jazz,” Mark Tucker and Travis Jackson (2001)
• The Jazz Discography, Tom Lord
• RIPM Jazz Periodicals (database of over 100 online periodicals)

Online Resources (Open access)

• Jazz Discography Project

• Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program

• Album cover art
  • Birka Jazz archive

  • Jazz Album Art and the Origins of Modern American Graphic Design

• DownBeat Magazine archive (critics poll first week in August; readers poll last week in December)
• Newport Jazz Festival programs
• Ken Burn’s Jazz PBS website (stream episodes on amazon prime or purchase on itunes)
  • New York Times reviews (Wesleyan access only)
    • “Fixing, for Now, the Image of Jazz,” Ben Ratliff (NYT, January 7, 2001)
    • “Watching ‘Jazz’ for Its High Notes and Low,” 13 responses (NYT, January 7, 2001)
  • “All that Jazz,” Gene Santoro (The Nation, January 12, 2001)
  • Review by Frank Tirro (teachinghistory.org, 2011)
  • Episode guide (Wikipedia)
• A DIY Guide to the History of Women in Jazz (Lara Pellegrinelli, NPR, January 12, 2021)

Race and Ethnicity

• Miles Davis on 60 Minutes(USA) – 1989 (“Are Black musicians genetically better that White musicians?”)

• AAA statements

  • on “Race” (1998)
  • on “Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics” (1997)
• Merriam-Webster has a new definition of “racism”
• “Can Blacks Be Racist? – March 2009” (David Pilgrim, Jim Crow Museum, FSU)
• “Ethnic” (OED)
• “About 6 Million U.S. Adults Identify as Afro-Latino” (Pew, 5/2/2022)
• Whiteness
  • What Is Whiteness? (Nell Irvin Painter, NYT, 6/20//2015)
  • ‘White Fragility’ Is Everywhere. But Does Antiracism Training Work? (NYT, Bergner, 7/15/2020)
  • “Is the Anti-Racism Training Industry Just Peddling White Supremacy?” (Jonathan Chait, New York magazine, 7/16/20)
  • The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility (John McWhorter, 7/15/2020)
  • “In Smithsonian Race Guidelines, Rational Thinking and Hard Work are White Values” (Newsweek, 7/17/2020)
    • Smithsonian Twitter thread on removing chart

  • What It’s Like to Read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man in 2020 (Alexander Montgomery, 2020)

    • What White Fragility Gets Wrong, and 5 Books to Read Instead