Freddie Green Book Excerpts:

Count Basie - A Bio-Discography
by Chris Sheridan

The World of Count Basie
by Stanley Dance

Count Basie and his Orchestra
by Raymond Horricks

Count Basie
by Alun Morgan

Masters of Jazz Guitar - The Story of the Players and Their Music
by Charles Alexander

Rhythm Man: Fifty Years in Jazz (The Autobiography of Steve Jordan)
by Steve Jordan with Tom Scanlan

The Jazz Guitarists
by Stan Britt

Count Basie Biography
This article is a brief overview of Count Basie's career, and, therefore, Freddie Green's career. The article appears in the "Encyclopedia of Popular Music"; Copyright Muze UK Limited, 1989 - 2002.

Guitarist Lawrence Lucie on playing rhythm guitar and Freddie Green
From Stanley Dance's book, The World of Swing.

Quote's about Freddie Green
From Whitney Balliett's book, Goodbyes and Other Messages: A Journal of Jazz 1981 - 1990

Quote's about Freddie Green
From The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond, by Joachim E. Berendt

It's The Cowboy Way - The Amazing True Adventures of Riders In The Sky
Quotes from noted rhythm guitarist "Ranger" Doug Green on Freddie Green's influence, from a book by Don Cusic.

Buck Clayton's Jazz World
Selected Quotes about Freddie Green by trumpeter Buck Clayton from his book.

Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
By William "Count" Basie himself.

Swing Legacy
By Chip Deffaa

The Early Swing Years 1930 - 1941
By Dave Oliphant

The Big Bands
By George T. Simon

A Thousand Honey Creeks Later: My Life in Music from Basie to Motown
By Preston Love

Lady Sings The Blues
By Billie Holiday and William Dufty

Benny Goodman And The Swing Era
By Gunther Schuller

Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young
By Douglas Henry Daniels

Benny Goodman And The Swing Era
By James Lincoln Collier

Jazz People
By Dan Morgenstern

Born Under The Sign of Jazz
By Randi Hultin

A New History of Jazz
by Alyn Shipton

The Sweet Hell Inside
by Edward Ball

With Billie (a new book about Billie Holiday)
by Julia Blackburn

John Hammond On Record: An Autobiography
by John Hammond with Irving Townsend

Profiles In Jazz
by Raymond Horricks

Charleston: A Cradle of Jazz
Charleston Jazz Initiative: Return To The Source, Proceedings June 2-4, 2005
Editors: Dr. Karen Chandler and Jack McCray

Music is My Mistress
Duke Ellington's autobiography

Count Basie: Swingin' The Blues 1936 - 1950
by Ken Veil

Giants of Jazz - Count Basie
Booklet by Stanley Dance

Journal of Southern History - Article: A Region In Harmony: Southern Music and the Sound Track of Freedom
by Charles Joyner

The Guitar In Jazz
Edited by James Sallis

Bucky Pizzarelli - A Life In Music
by Terrence M. Ripmaster

Benny Goodman At Carnegie Hall 1938 (Liner Notes)
In the liner notes, rhythm guitarist Turk Van Lake offers commentary (written July 1999) about Freddie Green's solo during the jam session on "Honeysuckle Rose"

Benny Goodman: The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
by Jon Hancock

Drummin' Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz
Author: Burt Korall

Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest
Authors: Ross Russell

Bass Line - The Stories and Photographs of Milt Hinton
by Milt Hinton and David G. Berger

Marshal Royal - Jazz Survivor
by Marshal Royal and Claire P. Gordon

Book Excerpt: Acoustic Guitars and Other Fretted Instruments
by George Gruhn and Walter Carter

Book Excerpt: Clark! The Autobiography of Clark Terry
by Clark Terry with Gwen Terry

One O’Clock Jump - The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils
by Douglas Henry Daniels


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