The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz Book

Arguments about what qualifies as jazz (let alone classic jazz) will rage well into the next millennium. Tom Piazza has floated his own definition--which is partly chronological and partly based on a few stylistic litmus tests--and then used it to shape this intelligent and individual guide. Considering both ensembles and soloists, he covers about 800 recordings, most of them made between 1920 and 1970. Although the heft of his book qualifies it as a reference work, Piazza never pretends to encyclopedic neutrality. On the contrary, he's a fiery advocate of the recordings he loves, and a chiding critic of those he doesn't.Read More

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  • Product Description

    In a single source, this book serves as a field guide to available recordings as well as a highly accessible vision of the development and sound of the music, one that will give the reader some sense of what musicians think about when they play, what kinds of demands are placed on them, and what kinds of solutions they have to come up with.

  • 0877454892
  • 9780877454892
  • Tom Piazza
  • 31 May 1995
  • University of Iowa Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 410
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