Books
JAZZ . . . and other obsessions - Bruce Crowther's Website
First, a list of all published books:
ISBN numbers |
(for original editions only - other editions, such as reprints, LP, translations, &c not shown) |
Fiction (as by author as shown) |
Non-fiction (all as by Bruce Crowther) (* = in collaboration with Mike Pinfold) |
Underkill Bruce Crowther (0709156642) |
Hollywood Faction: Reality and Myth in the Movies (0862870976) |
Dead Man's Cocktail Bruce Crowther (070915797x) |
Robert Redford (0946771804) |
Island of Gold James Grant (058431051x) |
Charlton Heston: the Epic Presence (0862872871) |
The Rose Medallion James Grant (0584311125 & 0600376192) (†) |
The Jazz Singers: from Ragtime to the New Wave (071376487) (*) |
The Ransom Commando James Grant (0584311141/0600376265) |
Laurel and Hardy: Clown Princes of Comedy (0862873444) |
The Left-Handed Shell James Grant (0584310633) |
Gene Krupa: His Life and Times (0946771375) |
Tightrope James Grant (0584311079) |
Bring Me Laughter:Four Decades of Television Comedy (0862873185) (*) |
Victims James Grant (0861880161) |
Benny Goodman (0948820047) |
Don't Shoot the Pianist James Grant (086188404) |
The Big Band Years (0715391372) (*) |
Unholy Alliance Bruce Crowther (0709187831) |
Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror (0862874025) (#) |
Black Wednesday Bruce Crowther (1709192762) |
Captured on Film: the Prison Movie (0713461152) |
Frontier Michael Ansara (0906071240) |
Burt Lancaster: a Life in Films (070904349x) |
Mace! James Grant (0861884868) |
Mitchum: the Film Career of Robert Mitchum (070945026) |
Mace's Luck James Grant (0861883837) |
Yesterday's Yorkshire: a Literary Anthology (0715394711) |
Michelle Pfeiffer (070905226x) |
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Singing Jazz: the Singers and their Styles (0713726482790) (*) |
(†) The Rose Medallion was serialized by BBC Television
(#) Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe award
Some of the foregoing books were also published in the USA and, in translation, in Germany, Italy, Japan and the RSA
As you can see, the books on jazz are:
The Jazz Singers: from Ragtime to the New Wave (in collaboration with Mike Pinfold) 1986
Gene Krupa: His Life and Times 1987
Benny Goodman 1988
The Big Band Years (with Mike Pinfold) 1988
Singing Jazz: the Singers and their Styles (with Mike Pinfold) 1997
Any of the foregoing that are still in print can be found either at your local friendly book store or through one of many on-line booksellers. The latter is perhaps the best place to go for second-hand copies of out-of-print titles.
Since 1984, many hundreds of record reviews appeared in Jazz Journal, together with various articles on jazz matters.
Now in its 63rd year of publication, Jazz Journal's subscription rates are on its website.
The past 15 years has seen a great deal of time spent as researcher and advisor for popular music encyclopædias that have appeared in book form and also on-line. Altogether, this involved work on more than 5,000 entries, ranging through all eras of jazz as well as the blues, R&B, soul, classic pop, country music, stage & screen musicals and various ethnic forms.
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Bruce Crowther © 2003-11
Last updated January 2011