Internet Public Library - Exhibit Hall - Swinging - Reading Room

Detroit jazz is soon to enter the 21st Century blowing strong. But to tell the story, we begin in the 1800s. Intro to the Reading Room
The Beginning:Black Music in Detroit - 1850-1920 by Herb Boyd
Stompin' at the Graystone: Jazz in Detroit - 1917-1940 by Lars Bjorn
Bebop in Detroit: Nights at the Blue Bird Inn by Lars Bjorn and Jim Gallert
Black Bottom and Beyond: The View in the '80s by Herb Boyd
What the Cultural Warriors Won: A '90s View by W. Kim Heron

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