Research Catalog

Title

City of Gabriels : the history of jazz in St. Louis, 1895-1973 / Dennis Owsley ; [foreword by Clark Terry]

Author

Owsley, Dennis, 1943-

Publication

St. Louis, Mo. : Reedy Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sheldon Art Galleries
• Terry, Clark

Description

vii, 200 p. : ill., ports.; 26 cm.

Alternative Title

History of jazz in St. Louis, 1895-1973

Subjects

• Jazz musicians > Missouri > Saint Louis > Biography
• Jazz > Missouri > Saint Louis > History and criticism

Note

• "... published in conjunction with an exhibit of the same name in the History of Jazz Gallery, September 2006-June 2007, organized by the Sheldon Art Galleries ..."--T.p. verso.
• "Published in collaboration with the Sheldon Concert Hall and the Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri."--p. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The pre-jazz era (1895-1919) -- The riverboats and the 1920s (1919-1929) -- St. Louis in the 1930s: the Plantation Club, the unions, and the decline of the riverboats (1930-1939) -- The war years: Jimmy Blanton, Miles Davis's St. Louis years, and the inception of jazz radio in St. Louis (1939-1949) -- The jazz scene in St. Louis in the 1950s (1949-1960) -- The rise & fall of Gaslight Square (1959-1967) -- The polarization of St. Louis jazz: traditional jazz and BAG (1968-1973) -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Charter members of the St. Louis Jazz Club.

ISBN

• 1933370041
• 9781933370040

LCCN

^^2006926890

OCLC

71122278

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library