MUH 3016: Survey of Jazz

Assignment 1

If you practice searching, it will help you understand how to search efficiently and effectively in USF's research databases.

TRY THIS search.   Locate information about:  
Contemporary, international Jazz musician/group (a musician or group that comes from a country other than the USA).

> Search the database Find It! using the terms Irish jazz musicians in the Search Box
Sometimes it helps to use quotes around the search terms you want to search as a phrase "Irish jazz musicians"
You can try it both ways to see what results you get
Scroll down the listings of your results

I became interested in finding out more about Louis Stewart

> Next search for "Louis Stewart" and jazz because I wanted to be sure I retrieved information about Louis Stewart, the Jazz musician, and not another Louis Stewart

> Narrow your search on the left-hand side of the search screen you canto news articles (there are a lot of them), eBooks, academic journal articles and magazine articles 
I chose to select academic journals articles
Scroll through the results

> Do the same search in the database JSTOR because JSTOR has all full-text, scholarly articles
Search for "Louis Stewart" and jazz 

> Go to Grove Music Online for biographical information
Search for "Louis Stewart" and Jazz
The results retrieved are a variety of biographies, some where "Louis Stewart" is mentioned
However, there is one biography, <Stewart, Louis>, that you can click on to obtain the full article about Louis Stewart including Selected Recordings, a Bibliography, etc. 

> Go to Music Online: Jazz Music Library 
Search for "Louis Stewart" to discover recordings by Louis Stewart
These are recordings can be used for your discographies
Do additional searching in a variety of databases for information about the recordings using the name of the recordings