The making of The Red Hot Jazz Archive would have been impossible without the incredible work of Jazz writers, historians and record collectors who did the original research, interviews and compiling of discographies that were used to assemble this web site. Below you will find some of the books that I found to be invaluable in compiling the information contained in these pages. |
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| Jazz Records 1897 - 1942 by Brian A. L. Rust |
| Who's Who Of Jazz by John Chilton |
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| The Baby Dodds Story as told to Larry Gara |
| Hear Me Talkin' To Ya The Story Of Jazz As Told By The Men Who Made It by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff |
| Really The Blues by Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe |
| With Louis And The Duke by Barney Bigard, edited by Barry Martyn |
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| In Search of Buddy Bolden by Donald M. Marquis |
| Bix; Man And Legend, by Richard M. Sudhalterr and Philip R. Evans, Arlington House Publishers, 1974 |
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| New Orleans Jazz: A Revised History by R. Collins |
| Chicago Jazz by William Howland Kenney |
| From Cakewalks to Concert Halls An Illustrated History of African American Popular Music from 1895 to 1930 by Thomas L. Morgan |
| From Jazz to Swing African-American Jazz Musicians And Their Music 1890-1935 by Thomas J. Hennessey |
| Jazz: A History Of The New York Scene by Samuel B. Charters and Leonard Kunstadt |
| Jelly Roll, Bix and Hoagy : Gennett Studios and the birth of recorded jazz by Rick Kennedy |
Many people have asked if the Red
Hot Jazz Archive is legal? The answer appears to be yes, but several
experts have said that it falls into a gray area of law, concerning the
transmission of the temporary Real Audio file and if that constitutes
copying and distributing of the recordings. I see the archive as a
radio station of sorts, and that I am just broadcasting these works,
not distributing them. Besides all that, the majority of the works on
this archive are in the public domain, because the copyrights have
expired. Under the copyright law that was in effect before 1978,
copyright was secured either on the date a work was
published or on the date of registration if the work was registered in
unpublished form. In
either case, the copyright endured for a first term of 28 years from
the date it was secured.
During the last (28th) year of the first term, the copyright was
eligible for renewal. The
current copyright law has extended the renewal term from 28 to 47 years
for copyrights
that were subsisting on January 1, 1978, making these works eligible
for a total term of
protection of 75 years. |
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