Black American music. Past and present
Vol. I
| Books | TheMusicSack | People |
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| 1985 |
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| The above item has biographical information on: |
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| Amu, Ephraim (b. 1899) | college professor, composer |
| Anderson, Thomas Jefferson (b. 1928) | composer |
| Armstrong, Louis (b. 1900) | cast, composer |
| Baker, David Nathaniel (b. 1931) | bassoon, composer |
| Basie, [William] (b. 1904 d. 1984) | bandleader, composer |
| Bethune Greene, Thomas (b. 1849 d. 1908) | piano, composer |
| Bland, James Allen (b. 1854 d. 1911) | minstrel show musician, professor |
| Bonds, Margaret (Allison) (b. 1913 d. 1972) | composer, piano |
| Brymn, Tim [James Timothy] (b. 1881 d. 1946) | composer, lyricist |
| Burleigh, Henry Thacker (b. 1866 d. 1949) | composer, singer |
| Carter, John (b. 1937) | piano, composer |
| Coleman, Ornette (b. 1930) | alto saxophone, drums |
| Coltrane, John (William) (b. 1926 d. 1967) | alto sax, soprano sax |
| Cunningham, Arthur H. (b. 1928) | composer |
| Da Costa, Noel George (b. 1929) | composer, violin |
| Dabney, Ford T. (b. 1883 d. 1958) | composer, lyricist |
| Davis, Miles (Dewey) (b. 1926 d. 1991) | piano, tromba |
| Dawson, William Levi (b. 1899 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| Dett, Robert Nathaniel (Farbiger) (b. 1882 d. 1943) | composer, teacher |
| El-Dabh, Halim (Abdul Messiah) (b. 1921) | composer |
| Ellington (b. 1899 d. 1974) | composer, direttore d'orchestra |
| Fax, Mark Oakland (b. 1911 d. 1974) | college professor, composer |
| Freeman, Harry Lawrence (b. 1869 d. 1954) | composer, conductor |
| Gillespie, Dizzy [John Birks] (b. 1917) | tromba, trumpet |
| Hakim, Talib Rasul (b. 1940 d. 1988) | composer |
| Handy, W.C. [William Christopher] (b. 1873 d. 1958) | additional Music, cast |
| Harris, Bill [Willie] (b. 1925) | guitar |
| Henderson, Fletcher [James Fletcher] (b. 1898 d. 1952) | arranger, bandleader |
| Johnson, Hall (b. 1888 d. 1970) | choir, choral director |
| Johnson, James P. [James Price] (b. 1891 d. 1955) | cast, composer |
| Jones, Quincy (Delight) (b. 1933) | arranger, composer |
| Joplin, Scott (b. 1868 d. 1917) | composer, librettist |
| Kay, Ulysses (Simpson) (b. 1917 d. 1995) | composer |
| Kennedy, Joseph J. (b. 1923) | violin, composer |
| Kerr, Thomas Henderson (b. 1915 d. 1988) | college professor, composer |
| Lewis, John (Aaron) (b. 1920) | arranger, composer |
| Monk, Thelonious (Sphere) (b. 1917 d. 1982) | piano, pianoforte |
| Moore, Carman Leroy (b. 1936) | composer, writer |
| Moore, Undine Smith (b. 1905 d. 1989) | composer, music educator |
| Morton, Jelly Roll (b. 1885 d. 1941) | composer, music based on |
| Nelson, Oliver (Edward) (b. 1932 d. 1975) | composer, arranger |
| Nickerson, Camille Lucie (b. 1888 d. 1982) | piano, organ |
| Nketia, Kwabena J.H. (b. 1921) | ethnomusicologist |
| Parker, Charlie [Charles Christopher] (b. 1920 d. 1955) | alto saxophone |
| Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor (b. 1932) | composer, dance arranger |
| Price, Florence Beatrice (b. 1888 d. 1953) | composer, arranger |
| Ryder, Noah Francis (b. 1914 d. 1964) | music educator, conductor |
| Smith, Hale (b. 1925) | composer, arranger |
| Southall, Mitchell Bernard (b. 1922 d. 1989) | composer, arranger |
| Sowande, Fela [Olufela] (b. 1905 d. 1987) | composer, organ |
| Still, William Grant (b. 1895 d. 1978) | arranger, composer |
| Taylor, Billy [William Edward] (b. 1921) | piano, music educator |
| Tillis, Frederick Charles (b. 1930) | composer, administrator |
| Turkson, Ato Alphonso (b. 1933) | composer |
| Turpin, Thomas Million (b. 1873 d. 1922) | ragtime piano, composer |
| Walker, George Theophilius (b. 1922) | banjo, composer |
| Waller, Fats [Thomas Wright] (b. 1904 d. 1943) | cast, composer |
| White, Clarence Cameron (b. 1880 d. 1960) | composer, violin |
| Williams, Clarence (b. 1898 d. 1965) | baritone saxophone, cast |
| Williams, Mary Lou (b. 1910 d. 1981) | arranger, cast |
| Wilson, Olly (Woodrow) (b. 1937) | composer, trombone |
| Work, John Wesley (b. 1901 d. 1967) | composer, scholar |