Identifies and offers brief profiles of more than a thousand jazz singers, songwriters, and musicians and includes entries about record labels, and types of jazz
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This complement to extant jazz reference works is long overdue. Engagingly written by musician/critics, it offers an international scope appropriately emphasizing figures of major historical importance while also heralding promising younger performers. Noteworthy innovators are credited, recordings noted, and jazzspecific terms defined. Alphabetical entries are complete and self-contained, an advantage over Leonard Feather's decade-specific Ency clopedia of Jazz (Da Capo, 1984. reprint). Though it is as inclusive as Joachim Berendt's The Jazz Book (Lawrence Hill, 1987. rev. ed.), unlike the Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz (1987. 3d ed.) it is not concerned with pop/rock artists. Comprehensive enough for general collections, but with a currency and level of detail that will please the specialist. Paul Baker, CUNA Inc., Madison, Wis.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0586085300
- ISBN 13 9780586085301
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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