All Music Guide to JazzAll Music Guide to Jazz
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Book, 2002
Current format, Book, 2002, Fourth edition, No Longer Available.Book, 2002
Current format, Book, 2002, Fourth edition, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsPrevious editions of this extraordinary reference are cited in Americn Reference Books Annual . It's worth bringing out the reading classes to make use of this guide to 20,000-plus recordings by 1,700 artists. Essays on jazz styles and on how to get started with jazz accompany the catalog of reviewed and rated recordings. Concise and colorful profiles describe each performer's life and career, style, principal instrument(s), and top recordings. Interspersed throughout are helpful "music maps" that track the use and users of particular instruments and the development of various threads in the history of jazz. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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.
(Book). Reviews and rates more than 20,000 sizzling recordings by over 1,700 musicians from New Orleans jazz to bebop, fusion and beyond. "Music Maps" chart the evolution of jazz instruments, plus the influence of significant players, vocalists and sidemen.
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, the evolution of jazz instruments, and essays on styles.
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.
(Book). Reviews and rates more than 20,000 sizzling recordings by over 1,700 musicians from New Orleans jazz to bebop, fusion and beyond. "Music Maps" chart the evolution of jazz instruments, plus the influence of significant players, vocalists and sidemen.
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, the evolution of jazz instruments, and essays on styles.
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- San Francisco, CA : Backbeat Books, [2002], Berkeley, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West., Milwaukee, WI : Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard Pub., ©2002
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