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Bobby McFerrin, Jazz Vocalist

ENCYCLOPEDIA & DICTIONARY ARTICLES

Editor: Don Michael Randel 
Title: The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Musicians 
Imprint: Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1996 
Page: 532 
Location: Music Library Reference ML105 H38 1996

Editors: Patricia Romanowski and Holly George-Warren 
Title: The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll 
Imprint: New York, NY: Rolling Stone Press. 1995 
Page: 644 
Location: Music Library Reference ML102 R6 R64 1995

Editor: Colin Larkin 
Title: The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 
Imprint: Middlesex, England: Guinness Publishing, 1995 
Page: Vol. 4, 2622 
Location: Music Library Reference ML102 P66 G84 1995 v.4

Editor: Nicolas Slonimsky 
Title: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians 
Imprint: New York, NY: Schirmer Books, 1994 
Page: 642 
Location: Music Library Reference ML105 B16 1993

Editor: Michael Heatley 
Title: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Rock. 
Imprint: New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1993. 
Page: 123 
Location: Music Library Reference ML102 R6 U48 1993

Editor: Donald Clarke 
Title: The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 
Imprint: New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1989. 
Page: 740 
Location: Music Library Reference ML102 P66 P46 1989

SHORT ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Article: Conductor Bobby McFerrin: The Jazz Singer, at Home on the Podium.Michael  Anthony. 
Periodical: AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 
Citation: 60:21-22, 24 
Date: January 1997 
Location: Music Library Stacks (Bound) ML1 A725

Article: New York Philharmonic: McFerrin. Herbert Kupferberg. 
Periodical: AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 
Citation: 60:43 
Date: January-February 1997 
Location: Music Library Stacks (Bound) ML1 A725

Article: Classical/keeping score: Don't worry, SONY will tell the world of McFerrin's classical excursions (album: Paper Music).
H. Waleson. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 107:32 
Date: July 29, 1995 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Blue notes (Bobby McFerrin joins artistic leadership of Saint Paul chamber Orchestra). J. Levenson. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 106:34 
Date: May 7, 1994 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Keeping score (Bobby McFerrin `creative chair' for Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra). I. Horowitz.
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 106:35 
Date: May 7, 1994
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Blue notes (film: Son of the Pink Panther). J. Levenson. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 105:36 
Date: Sept. 11, 1993 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Los Angeles. R. S. Ginell. 
Periodical: AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 
Citation: 56:58-9 
Date: n6 1993 
Location: Music Stacks at Joyner Library ML1 A725

Article: San Francisco Opera, II: high praise, and a delightful Dream (commissioned to write opera). P. Moor. 
Periodical: AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 
Citation: 56:20-1 
Date: n2 1993 
Location: Music Stacks at Joyner Library ML1 A725

Article: Sony beats the pop drum for Hush. B. Davies. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 104:68 
Date: May 9, 1992 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Record & CD reviews: Play. 
Periodical: DOWN BEAT 
Citation: 59:31 
Date: March 1992 
Location: Music Library Microforms, Music Stacks at Joyner Library (Bound) ML3561 J3 D64x and Bell & Howell Proquest
through NCLive

Article: Blue notes (album: Hush). J. Levenson. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 104:35 
Date: February 1992 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Popular music reviews: Medicine Music. 
Periodical: STEREO REVIEW 
Citation: 56:80 
Date: June 1991 
Location: Music Library Microforms

Article: Record & CD reviews: Medicine Man. 
Periodical: DOWN BEAT 
Citation: 58:31 
Date: March 1991 
Location: Music Library Microforms, Music Stacks at Joyner Library (Bound) ML3561 J3 D64x and Bell & Howell Proquest
through NCLive

Article: Cultural postmodernism and Bobby McFerrin: A case study of musical production as the composition of spectacle. 
Periodical: CULTURAL CRITIQUE 
Citation:  Issue 16 
Date: Fall, 1990 
Location: Joyner Library Stacks CB3 C84x

Article: McFerrin's 'medicine' is potent stuff (album: Medicine Man). D. Patrick. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 102:27-8 
Date: November 17 1990 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Talent in action. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 102:29+ 
Date: June 23 1990 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Blue notes: McFerrin's award-winner is a 'throwaway ditty.' J. Levenson. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 101:79 
Date: March 11 1989 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Grammy makes it McFerrin's night. P. Grein. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 101:1+ 
Date: March 04 1989 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Let's Worry: "Don't Worry, Be Happy" most offensive single of the year. G. Kenny. 
Periodical: VILLAGE VOICE 
Citation: 33:79 
Date: Sep 27 1988 
Location: Joyner Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Records: Simple Pleasures. 
Periodical: ROLLING STONE 
Citation: n537:87 
Date: October 20 1988 
Location: Joyner Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: 'Nice guys can finish first' (LP: Simple Pleasures). G. Mayfield. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 100:24-5 
Date: September 17 1988 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Talent in action. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 100:24 
Date: June 04 1988 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Blue notes: A singer and a saxophonist make surprising strides. P. Keepnews. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 98:63 
Date: December 06 1986 
Location: Music Library Microforms

Article: Talent in action. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 98:22 
Date: September 27 1986 
Location: Music Library Microforms

Article: Talent in action. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 97:44 
Date: January 05 1985 
Location: Music Library Microforms

Article: Bobby McFerrin Trickled Down (Recording "The Voice"). P. Watrous. 
Periodical: VILLAGE VOICE 
Citation: 29:79+ 
Date: Oct 9 1984 
Location: Joyner Library Microforms

Article: Blindfold Test.  L. Feather. 
Periodical: DOWN BEAT 
Citation: 50:47 
Date: Feb, 1983 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Music Stacks at Joyner Library (Bound) ML3561 J3 D64x

Article: Young Lions of jazz (recording of Carnegie Hall concert, 1982). C. Albertson. 
Periodical: STEREO REVIEW 
Citation: 48:86 
Date: August 1983 
Location: Music Library Microforms

Article: A look at N.Y. Kool Jazz Festival: act by act ('The Art of Jazz Singing'). 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 93:70 
Date: July 25 1981 
Location: Music Library Microforms 

FEATURE ARTICLES

Article: Swing, soul, sincerity: a Bobby McFerrin workshop. B. Milkowski. 
Periodical: DOWN BEAT 
Citation: 60:58 
Date: Nov `93 
Location: Music Library Microforms, Music Stacks at Joyner Library (Bound) ML3561 J3 D64x and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Pygmalions of pop: reinterpreting jazz and rock standards. P. S. Machlin. 
Periodical: COLLEGE MUSIC SYMPOSIUM 
Citation: 29:140-50 
Date: 1989 
Location: Music Stacks at Joyner Library ML1 C825

Article: McFerrin not worried, happy with four Grammy-sweep. J. Rosenbluth. 
Periodical: VARIETY 
Citation: 334:69+ 
Date: Mar 1, 1989 
Location: Joyner Library Microforms

Article: Bobby McFerrin: beyond scat, promise fulfilled. R. Tolleson. 
Periodical: DOWN BEAT 
Citation: 55:20-21 
Date: June 1988 
Location: Music Library Microforms, Music Stacks at Joyner Library (Bound) Ml 3561 J3 D64x and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Bobby McFerrin: expect the unexpected (interview). G. Aitken. 
Periodical: JAZZ EDUCATORS JOURNAL 
Citation: 20:12-14 
Date: No. 1, 1987 
Location: Music Stacks at Joyner Library ML1 N124

Article: The voice (interview). M. Bourne. 
Periodical: DOWN BEAT 
Citation: 52:20-22 
Date: May 1985 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Music Stacks at Joyner Library (Bound) ML3561 J3 D64x

Article: Bobby McFerrin, the ultimate solo. S. Bloom.
Periodical: MUSICIAN 
Citation: n69:26-7 
Date: July 1984 
Location: Music Stacks at Joyner ML1 M328

BOOKS

Author: Francis Davis 
Title: In the Moment: Jazz in the 1980s. 
Imprint: New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986. 
Location: Music Library Stacks ML3508 D38 1986

Author: Leslie Gourse 
Title: Louis' Children: American Jazz Singers. 
Imprint: New York, NY: W. Morrow, 1984. 
Location: Music Library Stacks ML3508 G68 1984 

RECORDINGS

Title: Bang! Zoom 
Label: Blue Note 
Date: 1995 
Location: Music Library Media CD-3791

Title: To Bird with Love. 
Label: Telarc Jazz 
Date: 1992 
Location: Music Library Media CD-1819

Title: Play. 
Label: Blue Note 
Date: 1992 
Location: Music Library Media CD-1491

Title: Hush. 
Label: Sony 
Date: 1992 
Location: Music Library Media CD-825

Title: Freddie Freeloader: John Hendricks and Friends
Label: Denon 
Date: 1990 
Location: Music Library Media CD-3314

Title: Medicine Music. 
Label: EMI 
Date: 1990 
Location: Music Library Media CD-839 

compiled 04-04-94 ask 
rev. 11-22-96 rc 
rev. 10-99 mb & dh

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