title: Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History
author: Robert Walser
description: "An impressive achievement. The introductions to the excerpts alone provide a fascinating mini-history of jazz that ranges through a wider variety of topics than many full-scale histories."--Gary Tomlinson, Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania<br /><br />"What a terrific collection. I hadn't realized how desperately I needed it until I started to read it. I used it in a jazz intro survey class and found it invaluable, as did the students."-- James McCalla, Professor of Music, Bowdoin College<br /><br />"Excellent and sometimes provocative readings in jazz history; an important addition to the curriculum." --Brian Torff, Fairfield University<br /><br />"My students love this book. It puts them in touch with the time period like no other book I've seen. It's an excellent discussion starter for jazz history and American music classes."--Reed Gratz, University of La Verne, CA<br /><br />"A fascinating look at how critics, writers and musicians wrote about jazz from its earliest years through the `90s."--Newark Star-Ledger<br /><br />"Walser provides fascinating material dealing with the jazz age in the 1920's, swing in the Thirties, and bebop in the Forties."--David P. Szatmary,Library Journal<br /><br />"An informative collection of primary source material. From quotations to important essays, [it] will aid the study of jazz history."--Brian Fitzpatrick, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts<br /><br />"Very informed, well written reading."--Bill Stanford Pincheon, Washington State University<br /><br />"Superb collection. As a jazz historian who has worked his way through quantities of interesting documents, I appreciate the care and range that Walser demonstrates."--David W. Stone, Michigan State University
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  # Histories, Book I
  
  
  ### A Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter Collection
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## John G. Hartness
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [![Falstaff Books](../images/00003.jpeg)
  
  
  ![Falstaff Books](../images/00002.jpeg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Introduction](part0002.html#1T140-df0cc6254e734fefa9fc2352c8c64323)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I. [Jazz City Blues](part0003.html#2RHM0-df0cc6254e734fefa9fc2352c8c64323)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1\. [Jazz City Blues](part0004.html#3Q280-df0cc6254e734fefa9fc2352c8c64323)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  II. [Hammer
  Time](part0005_split_000.html#4OIQ0-df0cc6254e734fefa9fc2352c8c64323)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1\. [Hammer Time](part0006.html#5N3C0-df0cc6254e734fefa9fc2352c8c64323)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  III. [The
  Dance](part0007_split_000.html#6LJU0-df0cc6254e734fefa9fc2352c8c64323)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](part0008.html#7K4G0-df0cc6254e734fefa9fc2352c8c64323)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0009.html#8IL20-df0cc6254e734fefa9fc2352c8c64323)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0010.html#9H5K0-df0cc6254e734fef