Summary
The third edition of the Rough Guide to Jazz has over 2,100 critical biographies, ranging from greats like Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis to rising stars like Stacey Kent and Jamie Cullum. As well as outlining every artist''s career, each entry concludes with recommendations of the best of their recordings on CD. The guide includes many illustrations by top jazz photographers.
Additional Information
| Series | Rough Guides music reference series. |
| Subjects |
Jazz
-- Dictionaries.
Jazz -- Bio-bibliography. Jazz -- Discography. Jazz -- History and criticism. |
| Publisher | New York :Rough Guides :2004 Distributed by the Penguin Group, |
| Edition | 3rd ed., expanded and completely rev. |
| Other Titles | Jazz : the rough guide. Jazz |
| Contributors |
Fairweather, Digby,
1946- Priestley, Brian, 1946- Alexander, Charles. Carr, Ian. Jazz : the rough guide. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Jazz : the rough guide. |
| Description |
927 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes discographies. |
| ISBN | 1843532565 (pbk.) |
| Other | Classic View |