Title: Saxophone soloists and their music, 1844-1985 :
Authors: Gee, Harry R.
Date: 1986
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Physical description: xv, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: Gilt decorated blue cloth. Fine. A superb copy of an exhaustive reference to the world of saxophone performance. Includes biographies, bibliographies, discographies, etc. An excellent and essential saxophone reference. The only book of it's kind among the few published titles dealing with the saxophone.
Contents: A brief historical background -- Paris conservatoire and other nineteenth-century solos -- Early saxophonists in England and the United States -- Vaudeville and popular awareness -- Annotated bibliography of selected jazz saxophonists -- Annotated bibliography of saxophone soloists in the American hemisphere -- Annotated bibliography of saxophone soloists in Europe -- Annotated bibliography of Saxophone soloists in japan and Australia.
Subject headings (LCSH): Music--Bio-bibliography.; Saxophone music--Bibliography.; Saxophone music--Discography.; Saxophonists--Biography.