Lists, rates, and reviews more than 13,200 recordings by 1,440 jazz artists; provides biographies of the artists; and charts the evolution of jazz

Product Description: Pepper Adams' Joy Road not only compiles the sessions and gigs of the greatest baritone saxophone soloist in history, but it's a fascinating overview of Adams' life and times through colorful interviews with Adams and other musicians...read more

Reviews jazz recordings covering more than seven decades, and includes biographical details and lineups (view table of contents)

Reviews jazz recordings, organized by performer, and includes biographical details and lineups.

Offers more than 3,300 entries covering musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Thelonious Monk, and Wynton Marsalis

Tim Neely has authored, compiled and organized this price guide which features jazz musicians, composers and vocalists from the bebop era through to today. Thousands of jazz artists are featured in over 40,000 listings and priced in three grades of conditions.

Reviews jazz recordings and includes biographical details and lineups.

Offers an informed collector's guide to one hundred top recorded works of jazz, profiling each piece in a context of its importance to the development of the form to also provide a historical introduction to the music and its performers. Original. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

An entertaining, easily accessible guide to jazz music covers more than eighteen thousand recordings and more than 1,700 musicians from across the jazz spectrum and includes a history of the different types of jazz music, the evolution of jazz instruments, essays on styles, and more. Original.

A listener's guide to jazz retraces the history of the music, from earliest recordings to the Depression, profiling the people and events behind this truly American art form in a collection of essays, reviews, profiles, and more. Original. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: A personal, and sometimes controversial, selection by three jazz critics of the "best" 250 modern jazz records and CDs. Each record and/or CD is placed in its musical context and reviewed in some depth. In addition, for each disc and/or CD, full details of personnel and recording dates and locations are given...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This is a very good book which will certainly become one of the essential works of reference for the jazz enthusiast. It covers the ragtime to swing period by way of 250 LPs, each of which is afforded full discographical information on dates, titles, and personnels. . . . The quality of the writing is extemely high, as indeed one has a right to expect from authors of this calibre. . . . Harrison, Fox, and Thacker have produced some beautifully composed essays on artistes such as Billie Holliday, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, etc. . . . It is a book which needs to be dipped into frequently, a volume to keep close to one's record collection. . . . It will increase immeasurably anyone's knowledge of, and appreciation for, jazz. The Gramophone (view table of contents)

A definitive guide to jazz and blues recordings features reviews of more than ten thousand albums, from the historic 1920s recordings of Louis Armstrong to the works of Branford Marsalis and Kenny G., and includes a concise overview of the history and influence of the music. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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Product Description: The ideal introduction to the history of jazz and its rich and varied heritageIn The Playboy Guide to Jazz noted jazz critic Neil Tesser has selected from the thousands of available jazz recordings 250 of the best CDs, grouping them into chapters devoted to significant movements and periods of jazz history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Lists, rates, and reviews more than 18,000 recordings by 1,740 jazz artists; provides biographies of the artists; and charts the evolution of jazz (view table of contents)

Offers discographies and reviews of recordings of hundreds of jazz artists, with suggestions on what to buy and what to avoid (view table of contents)

Reviewing six hundred of the greatest jazz recordings available on compact disk, a guidebook includes title, record label, catalogue number, history of the artist, highlights of the recording, and a cross-reference for recordings of similar appeal. Original.