ames Reece Europe request...
ames Reece Europe request...
Steven Z. Koplin wrote: "Could someone please post a consolidated listing of all available books and cds concerning James Reece Europe?"
Here is an excerpt from our Jazz-Index:
Jazz-Index, compiled by Jazz-Institut Darmstadt, 19. Dezember 1996
The following bibliographical information relates to periodicals and books present in the archive of the Jazz-Institut Darmstadt. Our extensive periodical collection comprises more than 700 periodicals, more than 40.000 single issues. About 40-50 % of the collection have been indexed.
Following the more recent entries you'll find abbreviations which will give you a clue about the nature in the respective articles. The abbreviations are:
[A] = analytical remarks [B] = extensive book review [BT] = blindfold test [C] = concert review [D] = discography [F] = feature article [I] = interview ["I"] = article written by the respective musician himself [R] = extensive record review [T] = transcription
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Europe, James Reese (ldr * b: 22.Feb.1881, Mobile/AL; d: 10.May 1919, Boston/MA [New Grove] {alt.date: 9.May 1919, Boston/MA [People in Jazz, Dictionnaire]}; Lexikon: People in Jazz [1984]; New Grove [1988]; Dictionnaire [1988,1995])
James Reese Europe: A Negro Explains "Jazz", in: Eileen Southern (Hg.): Readings in Black American Music, New York y1983 [book; 11971], p. 238-241 ("I"; Reprint aus: Literary Digest, 26.Apr.1919)
Samuel Charters & Leonard Kunstadt: Castle Walk, in: Samuel B. Charters & Leonard Kunstadt: Jazz. A History of the New York Scene, New York 1981 [book; reprint, Original: New York 1962], p. 23-41 (F)
Samuel Charters & Leonard Kunstadt: Hellfighters, in: Samuel B. Charters & Leonard Kunstadt: Jazz. A History of the New York Scene, New York 1981 [book; reprint, Original: New York 1962], p. 63-72 (F)
Gunther Schuller: The Big Bands. James Reese Europe, in: Gunther Schuller: Early Jazz. Its Roots and Musical Development, New York 1968 [book], p. 247-252 (A)
Gene Ferrett: Jim Europe and the Hellfighters, in: Gene Fernett: Swing Out. Great Negro Dance Bands, New York 1993 [book; Reprint, O: Midland/MI 1970], p. 19-20 (F)
Max Morath (ed.): Giants of Ragtime, New York 1971 [sheet music], p. 58-61 (T: piano solo arrangements of "Castle House Rag")
James Reese Europe: Letter to Eubie Blake, in: Robert Kimball & William Bolcom: Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake, New York 1973 [book], p. 66, 69-72 (letters)
NN: James Reese Europe, in: Robert Kimball & William Bolcom: Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake, New York 1973 [book], p. 58-59 (F; Reprint aus: The Crisis, Jun.1912)
NN: Negro Composer of Race's Music. James Reese Europe Credits Men of His Blood with Introducing Modern Dances, in: Robert Kimball & William Bolcom: Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake, New York 1973 [book], p. 64 (F/I; Reprint aus: New York Tribune, 22.Nov.1914)
NN: Negro's Place in Music, in: Robert Kimball & William Bolcom: Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake, New York 1973 [book], p. 60-61 (F/I; Reprint aus: The Evening Post, 13.Mar.1914)
NN: Ragtime by U.S. Army Band Gets Everyone 'Over There'. Drum Major Describes Furore Created by the Performances of Afro-American Band Under Colored Leader, in: Robert Kimball & William Bolcom: Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake, New York 1973 [book], p. 67-68 (F/I; Reprint aus: St.Louis Post-Dispatch, 10.Jun.1918)
Terry Waldo: The Clef Club, in: Terry Waldo: This Is Ragtime, New York 1976 [book], p. 100-105 (F)
Albert McCarthy: Early Syncopated Bands, in: Albert McCarthy: Big Band Jazz, New York 1977 [book], p. 10-12 (F)
Al Rose: Eubie Blake, New York 1979 [book], passim (F)
Lawrence T. Carter: Eubie Blake, Detroit 1979 [book], passim (F)
Gunther Schuller: James Reese Europe, in: Gunther Schuller: Musings. The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller, New York 1986 [book], p. 37-41 (F; Reprint aus: Dictionary of American Negro Biography, New York 1982)
NN: Schuller Arrangements of Europe Classics. Recalling the Vernon and Irene Castle dance era..., in: West Coast Rag, 6/2 (Mar.1994), p. 30, 33 (N)