Music. African-American Studies. This annotated, in-depth discography and itinerary of Eddie South, the jazz violin virtuoso, includes a cassette of SELECTED TEST AND BROADCAST PERFORMANCES 1927-1953. The book includes numerous publicity and candid photographs of South throughout his career, along with reproductions of his playbills and album covers. Eddie South (1904-1962) was the foremost classically trained African-American violinist of the early jazz and the swing-to-bebop periods. He first recorded in 1923 and made his last recording in 1959, collaborating, along the way, with such notables as Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelly.

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Editor and musician Anthony Barnett is the author of POEM ABOUT MUSIC (Providence, RI, 1974). He serves as editor to Fable Bulletin: Violin Improvisation Studies, and is a contributor to the second editions of New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians and of Jazz.