Which are the key jazz performances that should be in any collection of recordings? What are the main things the newcomer to jazz should listen out for? In this Guide, d seven leading authorities on recorded jazz choose the key sessions from all periods and styles, and give expert guidance in tracking them down on CD, LP or cassette, new or secondhand, in all parts of the world. The essential guide to a comprehensive coll of recorded jazz.
Exploring the underground world of bootleg fake books, this work uncovers the hidden narratives behind unauthorized song anthologies that have influenced pop, jazz, and country musicians for decades. Utilizing FBI files, court records, and oral histories, it reveals the origins and legal battles faced by bootleggers, alongside the rise of the iconic jazz fake book, The Real Book. This comprehensive account sheds light on a crucial yet overlooked aspect of music history.
An introduction to jazz by the editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz. A free audio CD accompanies the book.
This contains over 4500 essays by many jazz writers and scholars. It blends information with selected recordings, bibliographical data and critical assessments. Entries cover performers, styles, festivals and venues, instruments, record labels, terminology and the history of jazz. The whole scope of jazz is covered, from Louis Armstrong to Boogie Woogie, from improvization to the Montreux Festival, and from blues to the banjo and Bird. It is an unaltered reprint in one edition of the original edition, but it includes a list of the jazz musicians who have passed away in the years since publication.
There is no musical form that better accompanies this century than jazz. And there is no single work that better records the characters that made this free form "The Music of the Century" than The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. "The most comprehensive jazz reference work currently available" (Jazz Journal International), Jazz Grove searches out both fact and fiction, and differentiates between the two in discussions of both the all-time greats and the unheralded pioneers who contributed to making the history of jazz such a rich and fascinating tale. Touching on all aspects of jazz -- artists, festivals, nightclubs, record labels, instruments, traditions, and styles, this collection leaves no topic uncovered. If it is jazz it is in The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Includes more than 4,500 articles and over 200 unique photographs from the Driggs collection.
There is no musical form that better accompanies this century than jazz. And there is no single work that better records the characters that made this free form "The Music of the Century" than The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. "The most comprehensive jazz reference work currently available" (Jazz Journal International), Jazz Grove searches out both fact and fiction, and differentiates between the two in discussions of both the all-time greats and the unheralded pioneers who contributed to making the history of jazz such a rich and fascinating tale. Touching on all aspects of jazz -- artists, festivals, nightclubs, record labels, instruments, traditions, and styles, this collection leaves no topic uncovered. If it is jazz it is in The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Includes more than 4,500 articles and over 200 unique photographs from the Driggs collection.
